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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 12 2013 21:36 GMT
#37
/in

When will this start btw?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 12 2013 22:45 GMT
#62
On January 13 2013 06:38 Ruuch wrote:
/in

If you're a smurf, I'd like to know. Thanks.[/QUOTE]

He's not, he's my friend who has only played SC2 Mafia before (doesn't count I guess ).
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 00:09 GMT
#93
On January 13 2013 07:49 Dandel Ion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 07:45 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 06:38 Ruuch wrote:
/in

If you're a smurf, I'd like to know. Thanks.

He's not, he's my friend who has only played SC2 Mafia before (doesn't count I guess ).

I am concerned you had to reply for him, and he didn't.

I hope you are sure you don't want him to play newbies before. If he plays this one I will assume he has done enough self-research to not get himself modkilled at least.


Ofc regular rules I remind you guys of:
Don't talk about the game, out of this game. Don't PM (about the game) don't tell each other's alignment, etcetc.


Don't worry, if he doesn't participate I'll just kill him myself
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 00:27 GMT
#106
That smilie doesn't really mean anything, but rather look at jay's post before it.

On January 13 2013 09:01 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 08:49 kushm4sta wrote:
Wow I was going to try hard this game but then prome said what he said now I have to play like shit just to spite him.
~~~
On January 13 2013 07:08 Dandel Ion wrote:
If Kush goes retard in this game I'll just modkill him

I'll have no qualms about that.

Define full retard.
I will not play illegally that is all I can promise.


The way your entering the thread is terrible your setting the town up for failure.

Its hard enough to play mafia when people are trying there best. If your gonna play like shit and it make it intentionally hard to read you I have no problem lynching you. You looking scummy as it is.

You can step it up, Or get lynched your call.


That's just too aggressive for my taste. Did anyone else react like that to Kushm4sta's (trollish) posting? Why would it be scummy to draw attention without any need?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 00:32 GMT
#112
On January 13 2013 09:30 Ruuch wrote:
I'm town. Just putting that out there.


Yay, you're confirmed now xD
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 00:35 GMT
#115
But jay, what's with that aggressiveness towards an attention-seeking post? Why is carelessness scummy?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 00:39 GMT
#121
On January 13 2013 09:32 Hapahauli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 08:51 MrZentor wrote:
And why isn't Hapa spamming up the thread yet?

That's weird...


Didn't expect the game to start tonight o_O

I'll get right on that one though:

+ Show Spoiler +


In all seriousness, I'd rather NOT have to be the one spamming this game. My last two games (Witchcraft Mini + British Mini), I was 33% of the thread in content and driving the discussion for the entirety of the game. I don't mind repeating it this time around, but it's much better for the town not to rely on one person for activity.

The early burst of activity is quite good news though ^^


You'll be probably shot first if you're town, though, so you shouldn't refrain from posting. And it's best to establish yourself as town right away if you can. And if you're scum, posting a lot will drive you to a corner late-game. It's win-win for everyone, so why not.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 00:48 GMT
#133
On January 13 2013 09:42 Hapahauli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 09:39 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 09:32 Hapahauli wrote:
On January 13 2013 08:51 MrZentor wrote:
And why isn't Hapa spamming up the thread yet?

That's weird...


Didn't expect the game to start tonight o_O

I'll get right on that one though:

+ Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE


In all seriousness, I'd rather NOT have to be the one spamming this game. My last two games (Witchcraft Mini + British Mini), I was 33% of the thread in content and driving the discussion for the entirety of the game. I don't mind repeating it this time around, but it's much better for the town not to rely on one person for activity.

The early burst of activity is quite good news though ^^


You'll be probably shot first if you're town, though, so you shouldn't refrain from posting. And it's best to establish yourself as town right away if you can. And if you're scum, posting a lot will drive you to a corner late-game. It's win-win for everyone, so why not.


Oh I'll be posting for sure. Hell every time I say "I won't be as active" I end up spamming the shit out of the thread anyway.

I just have some not-so-good memories of thread activity in recent games, and if I'm the one driving discussion again, town's screwed when if I get NK'd.


Heh, that's fair enough. It seems like the same people are always driving discussion in every game they're in though (such as yourself). Dunno what could be done about it, I don't think you going less active will be of any help.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 00:50 GMT
#136
Jay, could you answer my question please?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 00:56 GMT
#145
On January 13 2013 09:53 Hapahauli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 09:51 Ruuch wrote:
On January 13 2013 09:40 Hapahauli wrote:
On January 13 2013 09:35 Ruuch wrote:
On January 13 2013 09:32 Hapahauli wrote:
Hey Ruuch, welcome to the thread!

Are you a new guy 'round these parts, or do you have any previous mafia experience?


I've played some SC2 mafia but this is the first time I'm dabbling into forum mafia. Have to say though, I was positively taken aback by your civil welcome


<3

You're one of the few people I don't know in this thread, mind if I pick your brain a bit?
1) What is your stance/view/attitude on lurker-lynches?
2) Are you going to be around for the lynch deadline?
3) Favorite dessert?


I had Xatalos quickly brief me on the terms in question, so here goes:

1) In theory I think I like the concept but I haven't really formed an opinion on it yet as this is my first forum mafia game after all.
2) I suspect I will.
3) Muffins, everybody loves muffins :3


Oh are you Xatalos's RL bud?

Also, is there anything in the thread that sticks out to you right now? There's certainly MrZ's vote on you that I want your opinions on.


Yeah, we're friends from high school. I'm trying not to say to him anything you couldn't find in a general guide or something like that though. I'm also trying not to determine his alignment outside of the game.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 01:00 GMT
#150
On January 13 2013 09:50 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 09:27 Xatalos wrote:
That smilie doesn't really mean anything, but rather look at jay's post before it.

On January 13 2013 09:01 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 13 2013 08:49 kushm4sta wrote:
Wow I was going to try hard this game but then prome said what he said now I have to play like shit just to spite him.
~~~
On January 13 2013 07:08 Dandel Ion wrote:
If Kush goes retard in this game I'll just modkill him

I'll have no qualms about that.

Define full retard.
I will not play illegally that is all I can promise.


The way your entering the thread is terrible your setting the town up for failure.

Its hard enough to play mafia when people are trying there best. If your gonna play like shit and it make it intentionally hard to read you I have no problem lynching you. You looking scummy as it is.

You can step it up, Or get lynched your call.


That's just too aggressive for my taste. Did anyone else react like that to Kushm4sta's (trollish) posting? Why would it be scummy to draw attention without any need?

Xatalos I dont know about you. But I dont want someone trolling in a mafia game. Why put up with someones bullshit so he can spite someone. If hes scum then he can just use to get away with scummy shit. I dont want to put up with that. So I rather put a stop to it now.


Yeah, his behaviour is anti-town. But is it scummy? Have you ever seen a scum player opening the discussion with something that will make people less opposed to lynching him?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 02:02 GMT
#200
Jay, are you still there?

On January 13 2013 10:39 MrZentor wrote:
Show nested quote +
I don't think I took it out of context. Hell why are you hard-defending someone barely 3 hours into the game? Sure you have a town read on him, but how can you be this sure so quickly? Do you really think Jay is completely incapable of doing what he just has done as mafia?

Secondly, I'm never going to really get a grip on Jay's alignment until I have a discussion with him. It's possible that you're right about all of this, but I want to hear from Jay and make a decision from that.


Saying that Jay was pushing Kush is definitely taking his quote out of context, whether you realize this or not.

I'm am almost certain he's town. Yes, it is possible for him to do this as scum, but it's extremely unlikely he'd be able to.[/QUOTE]

Do you think he's playing similarly to British Mafia? I think there are some things in his filter that game (aggression, spamminess) that are similar, but it's far too early to say that. It's just a couple of pages so far. Also, it's not hard to spam a bit with useless posts like random voting (...) to emulate your town game. If you wanted to define fluff, that would be it.

On January 13 2013 10:35 thrawn2112 wrote:
NVM MY BAD

##unvote
##Vote: grush


When we last played together, you were a most valuable asset for town. Why are you just throwing votes without explanation now?

"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 02:07 GMT
#204
On January 13 2013 09:47 kushm4sta wrote:
fyi i dont read megacases, so keep that in mind.
k this is my last intro post.
Next time I post it will be telling you who i think is scum.


Why are you even playing this game if you don't want to put in effort? I can't imagine scum playing like that, but that's still not an excuse to play anti-town.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 02:13 GMT
#208
On January 13 2013 11:09 MrZentor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 11:00 Hapahauli wrote:
WELP. On his behavior so far, Jay does seem rather townie.

Anyway MrZ, talk to me about Ruuch a bit. You have your vote on him, and he did respond to it some. Do you make anything one way or the other of his recent posting?


I'm leaning townie on him, but it's a pretty weak read.

And I suppose my vote served its purpose.

##Unvote


Show nested quote +
Do you think he's playing similarly to British Mafia? I think there are some things in his filter that game (aggression, spamminess) that are similar, but it's far too early to say that. It's just a couple of pages so far. Also, it's not hard to spam a bit with useless posts like random voting (...) to emulate your town game. If you wanted to define fluff, that would be it.


No, he's definitely not playing like he was in British Mafia.

My posts have a lot more content than yours, and that vote wasn't random. Are you familiar with the idea of putting pressure on somebody to gauge their response and get a better read on them?


I was talking about Jay in the last sentence. What's the biggest difference between his game now and then?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 02:17 GMT
#212
On January 13 2013 11:08 jaybrundage wrote:
@Xalalos

Well Zentor is already defending me lol. I can see him being townie again. Althought i never seen a scummy Zentor.

But as it is so far im leaning town. But regardless i rather not talk about town reads. Anything you think is scummmy as of yet?


Well, I haven't seen anything really scummy yet. Mostly I'm concerned with your entrance to the thread and thrawn's lack of engagement. And Kushm4sta's attitude, although it's not actually scummy, but it's still anti-town.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 02:21 GMT
#214
On January 13 2013 11:15 MrZentor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 11:13 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:09 MrZentor wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:00 Hapahauli wrote:
WELP. On his behavior so far, Jay does seem rather townie.

Anyway MrZ, talk to me about Ruuch a bit. You have your vote on him, and he did respond to it some. Do you make anything one way or the other of his recent posting?


I'm leaning townie on him, but it's a pretty weak read.

And I suppose my vote served its purpose.

##Unvote


Do you think he 's playing similarly to British Mafia? I think there are some things in his filter that game (aggression, spamminess) that are similar, but it's far too early to say that. It's just a couple of pages so far. Also, it's not hard to spam a bit with useless posts like random voting (...) to emulate your town game. If you wanted to define fluff, that would be it.


No, he's definitely not playing like he was in British Mafia.

My posts have a lot more content than yours, and that vote wasn't random. Are you familiar with the idea of putting pressure on somebody to gauge their response and get a better read on them?


I was talking about Jay in the last sentence. What's the biggest difference between his game now and then?


What? You switched from referring to Jay as "he" to "you"?

He seems a bit more confident this game than last.


"You" as in you = one (you can see a great view from here / one can see a great view from here).

Hmmm. So he's less careful than in his previous game (as town) and that's the basis of your confident town read?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 02:30 GMT
#217
On January 13 2013 11:16 thrawn2112 wrote:
my thoughts on the grush/hopeless thing have almost been reset to null for the following reason:

-the reasoning hopeless gave for thinking grush is scum is pretty close to my own reasoning. if I HAD to pick out one of them as scum right now, it'd probably be hopeless

##unvote

Apart from a few specifics in the ongoing grush/hopeless stuff, by biggest concern so far is super.

A lot of his accusations and scumhunting techniques seemed fake/ineffective and he was obsessing over things that do not matter at all. He never actually came to any conclusions based on his questioning, and he seemed to disappear from the thread as activity was starting to pick up.


What are you saying? You agree with hopeless so he's more scummy than grush whom you think is scummy with the same reasons as hopeless?

Yeah, supersoft's focus on a single smilie was very overdone. But I think he looked pretty convinced about the matter. Why was it fake? Maybe he just wanted to pressure and get a reaction?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 02:32 GMT
#218
On January 13 2013 11:25 MrZentor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 11:21 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:15 MrZentor wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:13 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:09 MrZentor wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:00 Hapahauli wrote:
WELP. On his behavior so far, Jay does seem rather townie.

Anyway MrZ, talk to me about Ruuch a bit. You have your vote on him, and he did respond to it some. Do you make anything one way or the other of his recent posting?


I'm leaning townie on him, but it's a pretty weak read.

And I suppose my vote served its purpose.

##Unvote


Do you think he 's playing similarly to British Mafia? I think there are some things in his filter that game (aggression, spamminess) that are similar, but it's far too early to say that. It's just a couple of pages so far. Also, it's not hard to spam a bit with useless posts like random voting (...) to emulate your town game. If you wanted to define fluff, that would be it.


No, he's definitely not playing like he was in British Mafia.

My posts have a lot more content than yours, and that vote wasn't random. Are you familiar with the idea of putting pressure on somebody to gauge their response and get a better read on them?


I was talking about Jay in the last sentence. What's the biggest difference between his game now and then?


What? You switched from referring to Jay as "he" to "you"?

He seems a bit more confident this game than last.


"You" as in you = one (you can see a great view from here / one can see a great view from here).

Hmmm. So he's less careful than in his previous game (as town) and that's the basis of your confident town read?


You didn't ask me what the basis of my town read is.

You asked the difference between Jay's play this game and last.


Yeah, but it's related. You saw Jay as townie last game and now you're at least equally convinced. I'm guessing more confident = more townish = very townish in your mind?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 02:43 GMT
#222
On January 13 2013 11:36 thrawn2112 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 11:30 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:16 thrawn2112 wrote:
my thoughts on the grush/hopeless thing have almost been reset to null for the following reason:

-the reasoning hopeless gave for thinking grush is scum is pretty close to my own reasoning. if I HAD to pick out one of them as scum right now, it'd probably be hopeless

##unvote

Apart from a few specifics in the ongoing grush/hopeless stuff, by biggest concern so far is super.

A lot of his accusations and scumhunting techniques seemed fake/ineffective and he was obsessing over things that do not matter at all. He never actually came to any conclusions based on his questioning, and he seemed to disappear from the thread as activity was starting to pick up.


What are you saying? You agree with hopeless so he's more scummy than grush whom you think is scummy with the same reasons as hopeless?

Yeah, supersoft's focus on a single smilie was very overdone. But I think he looked pretty convinced about the matter. Why was it fake? Maybe he just wanted to pressure and get a reaction?


xatalos do you actually have opinions about any of this or are you just going to ask random questions?


Just trying to make sense of your post. I didn't get the point you were making in your chain of logic about hopeless being scum over grush.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 02:49 GMT
#225
On January 13 2013 11:45 thrawn2112 wrote:
hopeless comes away more scummy because if I look at each player objectively, without meta, and not thinking about them omgusing each other, hopeless is scummier. meta is a dumb reason to have a strong opinion on who to lynch, and hopeless actually seemed completely serious about wanting to lynch grush. his "wrong answer" post was strange as you've pointed out and "what would be the right answer" was the same question I thought about as soon as I read hopeless's post. no, he's not my top read. that title probably goes to xatalos/super. as I said, my thoughts on grush/hope have somewhat been reset back to null.

fml if this is to be yet another incarnation of thrawn and hapa spamming at each other


Why am I now one of your top reads? Because I questioned about your reasoning?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 03:01 GMT
#232
On January 13 2013 11:54 thrawn2112 wrote:
the reasons I think xatalos could be scum

he's defending kush.... scum do that a lot
he's pushing jay.....scum do that a lot
he's participating in a lot of discussion that isn't related to scumhunting, it looks like he's arguing for the sake of arguing
i don't detect real suspicion in any of his posts

he's spending way too much time defending people and I don't think he's actually suspicious of anything


Well, take a look at my previous game. I was lynched because I couldn't get a solid scumread on anyone. I'm definitely trying my best, but it's this early. If I had to lynch someone at this spot, it would be Jay.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 04:05 GMT
#272
On January 13 2013 12:54 kushm4sta wrote:
dont see the scumslip at all read his filter twice lol.
One day I will win your approval somehow though because I think your name is so awesome.

He does look hella scum tho. Defending EVERYONE for no reason.
##vote mrzentor


Look at MrZentor's meta. I think his filter is already bigger and filled with more content than ever before as town. And as scum he's much more quiet and passive than as town. That's a really pathetic vote if you're even thinking about reasons for it. And it's not "no reason" he's defending Jay, nor has he defended "everyone". Is this even a serious vote?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 04:53 GMT
#280
On January 13 2013 13:30 kushm4sta wrote:
ss wtf now I feel dumb for going on your dumb wagon.. everyone hates it.
##unvote mz

other people who look kind of scummy: hapa for dumb logic,ss for being scared shitless that he has to play 2 scum games in a row


Let me get this straight. You almost instantly leave the wagon after having voted, not because you see anything wrong in the wagon at all, but because it doesn't gain enough support for your liking. Then you proceed to throw some dirt on several additional players. It just fits a Mafia agenda too well and doesn't make any sense as town. Then again, your entrance to the thread was pretty suicidal from a Mafia perspective. But if I look at the recent pages (or even just this one post), Occam's razor says you're Mafia. Can you explain your behaviour?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 04:56 GMT
#281
On January 13 2013 13:19 MrZentor wrote:
Well, he was in it, I suppose, but he didn't read the last half.


Well, you did make a huge comeback later in the game. But you've posted more stuff so far in this game than during the early game there...
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 05:12 GMT
#287
Well... I can actually relate to that kind of thinking. I was under heavy suspicion last game for switching my reads based on others' opinions. It's still scummy though, but on the other hand, it's a blatantly scummy thing to do that actual scum wouldn't do (at least so clearly). Conclusion? Tentatively town, purely based on you doing too many anti-town/scummy things for it to make any sense as scum. It sounds stupid, yeah, but it's actually logical. Playing like that makes you get heavy pressure and you end up most likely claiming scum at some point unless you're an amazing player.

(It's pronounced Ksatalos btw, lol)
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 05:18 GMT
#289
Should have quoted this post

On January 13 2013 14:00 kushm4sta wrote:
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On January 13 2013 13:53 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 13:30 kushm4sta wrote:
ss wtf now I feel dumb for going on your dumb wagon.. everyone hates it.
##unvote mz

other people who look kind of scummy: hapa for dumb logic,ss for being scared shitless that he has to play 2 scum games in a row


Let me get this straight. You almost instantly leave the wagon after having voted, not because you see anything wrong in the wagon at all, but because it doesn't gain enough support for your liking. Then you proceed to throw some dirt on several additional players. It just fits a Mafia agenda too well and doesn't make any sense as town. Then again, your entrance to the thread was pretty suicidal from a Mafia perspective. But if I look at the recent pages (or even just this one post), Occam's razor says you're Mafia. Can you explain your behaviour?

i read his filter twice
i thought it was scummy.
THEN
everyone who knows his meta says he isn't scummy.
he doesn't respond scummily.
i dont think he's scummy
is that explained enough to you?

also your name is pronounced shatalos? sorry but this is relevant to me because I like to say it in my head.

"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 05:20 GMT
#290
Also Jay, while you're here, do you think Kushm4sta is scum now? If not, who is your #1 read?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 05:28 GMT
#291
Actually (@Jay) you haven't done anything meaningful after accusing Kushm4sta as scummy for his anti-town entrance. You have a lot of fluff in your filter, though. But that's actually worse than having nothing in its place. MrZentor keeps saying you're town for your spamminess, but that's not too hard for Mafia with some experience and knowledge to fake. All you have to do to keep MrZentor off you is to post something a lot, no matter how thought-out it is. I'm on the border of voting you right now based on this very early game alone. Prove me wrong. Start by scumhunting.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 05:46 GMT
#294
On January 13 2013 14:36 slOosh wrote:
Ok, enough second guessing, my case is gonna be on Xatalos. People should read up on his filter before reading my case so they can better look at it objectively. Next post will be case.


Okay, bring it on. Unfortunately I'm going to sleep now (it's morning here already lol) so I'll take a look at it sometime later.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 22:04 GMT
#397
I'm gonna have some catching up to do. Here's the case from Sloosh that I unfortunately didn't see before going to bed.

On January 13 2013 15:18 slOosh wrote:
The Xatalos case


Xatalos doesn't actually scumhunt. He asks strings of pointless questions, and brings up things and then doesn't provide any conclusions.

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On January 13 2013 11:07 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 09:47 kushm4sta wrote:
fyi i dont read megacases, so keep that in mind.
k this is my last intro post.
Next time I post it will be telling you who i think is scum.


Why are you even playing this game if you don't want to put in effort? I can't imagine scum playing like that, but that's still not an excuse to play anti-town.

What is the purpose behind this post? First, it doesn't even make sense. Not being able to imagine scum playing like that has nothing to do with an excuse to play anti-town. Perhaps he thinks kush is town and wants him to shape up? Well then why does he contradict himself when he called out jay for doing the exact same thing?

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On January 13 2013 09:27 Xatalos wrote:
That smilie doesn't really mean anything, but rather look at jay's post before it.

On January 13 2013 09:01 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 13 2013 08:49 kushm4sta wrote:
Wow I was going to try hard this game but then prome said what he said now I have to play like shit just to spite him.
~~~
On January 13 2013 07:08 Dandel Ion wrote:
If Kush goes retard in this game I'll just modkill him

I'll have no qualms about that.

Define full retard.
I will not play illegally that is all I can promise.


The way your entering the thread is terrible your setting the town up for failure.

Its hard enough to play mafia when people are trying there best. If your gonna play like shit and it make it intentionally hard to read you I have no problem lynching you. You looking scummy as it is.

You can step it up, Or get lynched your call.


That's just too aggressive for my taste. Did anyone else react like that to Kushm4sta's (trollish) posting? Why would it be scummy to draw attention without any need?

Even the way he does it is strange. It doesn't directly say, 'hey jay is making out things that aren't there, jay is scummy for doing so'. It's more of an invitation for people to consider jay scummy without actually calling him scummy.


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On January 13 2013 11:30 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:16 thrawn2112 wrote:
my thoughts on the grush/hopeless thing have almost been reset to null for the following reason:

-the reasoning hopeless gave for thinking grush is scum is pretty close to my own reasoning. if I HAD to pick out one of them as scum right now, it'd probably be hopeless

##unvote

Apart from a few specifics in the ongoing grush/hopeless stuff, by biggest concern so far is super.

A lot of his accusations and scumhunting techniques seemed fake/ineffective and he was obsessing over things that do not matter at all. He never actually came to any conclusions based on his questioning, and he seemed to disappear from the thread as activity was starting to pick up.


What are you saying? You agree with hopeless so he's more scummy than grush whom you think is scummy with the same reasons as hopeless?

Yeah, supersoft's focus on a single smilie was very overdone. But I think he looked pretty convinced about the matter. Why was it fake? Maybe he just wanted to pressure and get a reaction?

Here is a really awkward defense of supersoft. A totally unjustified soft defense of someone who hasn't done anything to deserve it. Stands in stark contrast to finding jay's post 'too aggressive for his taste'.


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On January 13 2013 12:01 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:54 thrawn2112 wrote:
the reasons I think xatalos could be scum

he's defending kush.... scum do that a lot
he's pushing jay.....scum do that a lot
he's participating in a lot of discussion that isn't related to scumhunting, it looks like he's arguing for the sake of arguing
i don't detect real suspicion in any of his posts

he's spending way too much time defending people and I don't think he's actually suspicious of anything


Well, take a look at my previous game. I was lynched because I couldn't get a solid scumread on anyone. I'm definitely trying my best, but it's this early. If I had to lynch someone at this spot, it would be Jay.

This is the first time some pressure is applied on him. How does he handle it? It is a totally apologetic tone, mixed in with some appeasement (which contrasts to him "calling out jay" later on, even though nothing has really changed, not to mention that he doesn't mention at all jay's posts on supersoft, or supersoft's scummy second entrance). Scum apologize and make themselves seem smaller than they are (cf Ver's guide).


##Vote: Xatalos


1) False. You cherry-picked some general posts from my filter (everyone has those) and conveniently didn't mention any of those where I scumhunted or provided conclusions from my "pointless" (really?) questions.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=8#150
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=14#272
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=14#280
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=15#287
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=15#291

2) Kush is basically "too scummy to be scum". There's the lingering doubt in my mind that this is his risky meta-strategy, but when we use Occam's razor, the simplest solution = he genuinely doesn't care what town thinks about him. One might say that's a fake attitude, but it's hard to fake (it goes against basic Mafia survival instincts) and most of all it's very risky (usually controversial and scummy players get lynched after all).

With that out of the way, yeah, I think Kush is town. I had a moment of serious reconsideration after he quickly jumped off MrZentor and sheeped the popular opinions, but in the end, that's also a blatantly scummy thing to do. So it goes with the common theme of Kush not really caring how scummy he looks. (haha, looks also like Kush got replaced, I hope this means less anti-town play at least...)

You're right in that post questioning his playstyle being pretty useless though. I just typed it on a whim and didn't really consider if it would change anything or not. I don't actually understand what you mean with that contradiction. Please elaborate on that.

3) I wasn't completely certain if his post was scummy or not while typing that. I thought it worthwhile to put forth pressure in any case, making him potentially falter and scumslip. Nothing as exciting as that happened, though. But I did start to push harder after that.

4) Seriously, are you suggesting a Xatalos/supersoft connection based around me simply stating the fact that most likely supersoft was just trying to bait scumslips with his weird pressure? That's a really weak reason for thinking supersoft is scum. And I disagree, supersoft's insistent pressure was definitely a townish move. You can't say he "hadn't done anything to deserve defense" when he had clearly participated in pressure and was trying to get something out of Jay.

5) Once again, I know it's a scummy trait to be hesitant with reads, but after suffering from tunneling in my first two town games, I learned the hard way: everyone is innocent until proven guilty. No need to rush with exaggerated reads and confirmation bias, or scum will just have a field day while everyone is stubbornly accusing their personal suspect. Pressure and analysis is very important, but blind faith in your own reads and refusal to think of counter-arguments to yourself will leave you fooled and unable to see even the most obvious truth.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 22:22 GMT
#406
On January 13 2013 15:08 Hapahauli wrote:
Oooh, thread blew up while I was gone =O

@ MrZ

I don't think it's good to give Kush a town read based on the 180. If it was another player, I'd agree with you, but Kush is some who doesn't mind the spotlight at-all as scum. I don't know what to think of him yet, and I'm going to wait until I see his scumhunting before I make a judgement.

@ Supersoft

Have you looked into MrZ's meta at all? Because those early-game town reads are super-normal for him.

Also, please reply to my previous post:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=6#119

Regarding Xatalos

His interaction with MrZ regarding Kush looks super-duper sketchy. He's balls-out convinced that Kush's 180 was scummy, then backs down to a "townish" read when confronted by MrZ.

That, and he's been soft-defending a few players early in the game. His soft-defense of supersoft in particular reads as very forced:
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On January 13 2013 11:30 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:16 thrawn2112 wrote:
my thoughts on the grush/hopeless thing have almost been reset to null for the following reason:

-the reasoning hopeless gave for thinking grush is scum is pretty close to my own reasoning. if I HAD to pick out one of them as scum right now, it'd probably be hopeless

##unvote

Apart from a few specifics in the ongoing grush/hopeless stuff, by biggest concern so far is super.

A lot of his accusations and scumhunting techniques seemed fake/ineffective and he was obsessing over things that do not matter at all. He never actually came to any conclusions based on his questioning, and he seemed to disappear from the thread as activity was starting to pick up.


What are you saying? You agree with hopeless so he's more scummy than grush whom you think is scummy with the same reasons as hopeless?

Yeah, supersoft's focus on a single smilie was very overdone. But I think he looked pretty convinced about the matter. Why was it fake? Maybe he just wanted to pressure and get a reaction?


I'm generally hesitant about him given that I mislynched him in British Mini Mafia for his "wishy-washiness," but his filter doesn't look very good right now.


Well, you already removed your first argument, so how did that affect your scumread on me? And I already explained that "soft defense" (stating a simple point about his probable intentions) in my previous post. How did that affect your read? I'm actually surprised how weak this reasoning is for your #1 scumread. Is that all there is to it?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 22:52 GMT
#422
On January 13 2013 14:58 jaybrundage wrote:
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On January 13 2013 14:28 Xatalos wrote:
Actually (@Jay) you haven't done anything meaningful after accusing Kushm4sta as scummy for his anti-town entrance. You have a lot of fluff in your filter, though. But that's actually worse than having nothing in its place. MrZentor keeps saying you're town for your spamminess, but that's not too hard for Mafia with some experience and knowledge to fake. All you have to do to keep MrZentor off you is to post something a lot, no matter how thought-out it is. I'm on the border of voting you right now based on this very early game alone. Prove me wrong. Start by scumhunting.

Da fuck I have been scum hunting have you read my filter. I was pressuring Supersoft, and defending a town read I have.

Dont throw baseless accusations at me. Atm your looking kinda scummy you ask questions in the thread never draw any conclusions about the things you ask. You have a scum read on Kush and then when he changes his read on Mr.Zentor you say that hes too scummy to be scum hes town. ????? dafuq Thats after a single fucking small post. You got lynched last game day one for you 180's that make no damn sense and your doing them again this game.

The only thing that make's me hesitate to lynch you is that your such giant lynch bait. I also am not sure about Kush both of you guys have such fluctuating reads.

Kush goes from this guy is scum vote. To oh wait ok hes not scum. To explaining why hes prolly not scum to being scum again. Like is this normal?


I'm trying to find any actual scumhunting in your filter, but it's just not there.

- You called Kush scummy for entering the thread in an anti-town fashion (extremely easy to attack a controversial player like that, and you never pursued this read anyway - you even corrected that his play was anti-town and not scummy later, so what caused this significant change of wording?)
- You called supersoft useless (not scummy though - this stab at supersoft was extremely unimpactful, weak and definitely neither pressure nor scumhunting, it achieved nothing for the thread)

And now you actually freak out and start accusing me suddenly. Is the pressure too much? Why would a townie react like that? I bet it's because you're scum and desperate to get off this situation. Combined with your absolute lack of effort to progress scumhunting so far, you're a very decent lynch at the moment.

##Vote jaybrundage
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 13 2013 23:00 GMT
#425
Damn it, I just have to get some sleep now (5 hours until wakeup to work). Going to reread the thread tomorrow and figure out some other players.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 16:38 GMT
#567
On January 14 2013 13:11 jaybrundage wrote:
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On January 14 2013 11:38 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 14 2013 10:55 wherebugsgo wrote:
I think xatalos is a fine lynch for today, but I need to read up on his past games to make sure that he is the best lynch.

I don't agree with lynching super, so whoever is on him should probably consider moving their votes. On reread Hopeless doesn't seem that bad, just really lazy. I want him to actually do something though, or I may consider pushing him tomorrow, assuming I'm alive.

Ruuch: play the game or I'll stop giving you the newbie free card.

##vote Xatalos


Why Xatalos over SS I think both of played scummy so far.

WBG Answer this plz.

I could lynch either one. But imma gonna go ahead and go with Xatalos. I dont like his posts. His attack of me doesnt seem to have much merit.

I dont like his hard flip on Kush. Hes calling me out for doing nothing when hes done less. He throws some baseless accusations at me and just seems like hes trying ot go for an easy mislynch.



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On January 14 2013 07:52 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 14:58 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 13 2013 14:28 Xatalos wrote:
Actually (@Jay) you haven't done anything meaningful after accusing Kushm4sta as scummy for his anti-town entrance. You have a lot of fluff in your filter, though. But that's actually worse than having nothing in its place. MrZentor keeps saying you're town for your spamminess, but that's not too hard for Mafia with some experience and knowledge to fake. All you have to do to keep MrZentor off you is to post something a lot, no matter how thought-out it is. I'm on the border of voting you right now based on this very early game alone. Prove me wrong. Start by scumhunting.

Da fuck I have been scum hunting have you read my filter. I was pressuring Supersoft, and defending a town read I have.

Dont throw baseless accusations at me. Atm your looking kinda scummy you ask questions in the thread never draw any conclusions about the things you ask. You have a scum read on Kush and then when he changes his read on Mr.Zentor you say that hes too scummy to be scum hes town. ????? dafuq Thats after a single fucking small post. You got lynched last game day one for you 180's that make no damn sense and your doing them again this game.

The only thing that make's me hesitate to lynch you is that your such giant lynch bait. I also am not sure about Kush both of you guys have such fluctuating reads.

Kush goes from this guy is scum vote. To oh wait ok hes not scum. To explaining why hes prolly not scum to being scum again. Like is this normal?


I'm trying to find any actual scumhunting in your filter, but it's just not there.

- You called Kush scummy for entering the thread in an anti-town fashion (extremely easy to attack a controversial player like that, and you never pursued this read anyway - you even corrected that his play was anti-town and not scummy later, so what caused this significant change of wording?)
- You called supersoft useless (not scummy though - this stab at supersoft was extremely unimpactful, weak and definitely neither pressure nor scumhunting, it achieved nothing for the thread)

And now you actually freak out and start accusing me suddenly. Is the pressure too much? Why would a townie react like that? I bet it's because you're scum and desperate to get off this situation. Combined with your absolute lack of effort to progress scumhunting so far, you're a very decent lynch at the moment.

##Vote jaybrundage



Scum seem to have a habit of trying to get me mislynched day one. Soo why not use it to my advantage. I think your scum trying to put some pressure on an easy target. Well fuck that.

##Vote Xatalos


What's with this vote? Let's look at the arguments:

- My case doesn't seem to have much merit (what's this supposed to mean? it does have some merit but not enough? how is that scummy?)
- You don't like my hard flip on Kush (as I said, I've had a townread on Kush ever since he entered the thread by grabbing attention, and only for a moment did I suspect him after one blatantly scummy post - after his response I concluded that it actually belonged well enough with his "too scummy to be scum" verdict and dropped that line of thought - there's a fast switch of stance there, but it's nothing out of the ordinary when considering his scummy posting and especially that one post)
- You say I've done less than you (really? all you've done is call Kush scummy for grabbing attention, take a stab at supersoft for being useless, and call me scum for... basically posting a case with some merit, giving serious thought to Kush's alignment and apparently doing less than yourself, although I've clearly been more active and taken more stances than you)

This whole case feels forced and unconvinced. Even more so with vague wording like "his attack of me doesn't seem to have much merit", "I don't like his posts" and "seems like hes trying to go for an easy mislynch" (and what the heck, how is this an "easy mislynch", since most people here think you're town?).

Speaking of that, MrZentor, do you currently think Jay is town? What do you think about his latest posts?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 16:53 GMT
#570
On January 14 2013 08:23 Hapahauli wrote:
@ Xatalos
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On January 14 2013 07:22 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 15:08 Hapahauli wrote:
Oooh, thread blew up while I was gone =O

@ MrZ

I don't think it's good to give Kush a town read based on the 180. If it was another player, I'd agree with you, but Kush is some who doesn't mind the spotlight at-all as scum. I don't know what to think of him yet, and I'm going to wait until I see his scumhunting before I make a judgement.

@ Supersoft

Have you looked into MrZ's meta at all? Because those early-game town reads are super-normal for him.

Also, please reply to my previous post:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=6#119

Regarding Xatalos

His interaction with MrZ regarding Kush looks super-duper sketchy. He's balls-out convinced that Kush's 180 was scummy, then backs down to a "townish" read when confronted by MrZ.

That, and he's been soft-defending a few players early in the game. His soft-defense of supersoft in particular reads as very forced:
On January 13 2013 11:30 Xatalos wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:16 thrawn2112 wrote:
my thoughts on the grush/hopeless thing have almost been reset to null for the following reason:

-the reasoning hopeless gave for thinking grush is scum is pretty close to my own reasoning. if I HAD to pick out one of them as scum right now, it'd probably be hopeless

##unvote

Apart from a few specifics in the ongoing grush/hopeless stuff, by biggest concern so far is super.

A lot of his accusations and scumhunting techniques seemed fake/ineffective and he was obsessing over things that do not matter at all. He never actually came to any conclusions based on his questioning, and he seemed to disappear from the thread as activity was starting to pick up.


What are you saying? You agree with hopeless so he's more scummy than grush whom you think is scummy with the same reasons as hopeless?

Yeah, supersoft's focus on a single smilie was very overdone. But I think he looked pretty convinced about the matter. Why was it fake? Maybe he just wanted to pressure and get a reaction?


I'm generally hesitant about him given that I mislynched him in British Mini Mafia for his "wishy-washiness," but his filter doesn't look very good right now.


Well, you already removed your first argument, so how did that affect your scumread on me? And I already explained that "soft defense" (stating a simple point about his probable intentions) in my previous post. How did that affect your read? I'm actually surprised how weak this reasoning is for your #1 scumread. Is that all there is to it?


Talk to me a bit.

The main thing I find scummy about you is your multitude of soft-defenses. The supersoft one I quoted earlier reads as especially strange. Also, you're pushing Jay right now, but pushing lynch-bait is something anyone can do. We were both playing in British Mini, and you saw how he acted. What makes his gameplay different now? I see a lot of similarities - spaminess, etc.


He was spammy in that game as well, but he also had clear opinions and he wasn't at all as vague and wishy-washy as he is now. Just look at how vaguely he talks about other players (including me, his lynch of choice, and supersoft, his other lynch candidate). And I've explained this already, but I was merely pointing out a plausible town motivation for supersoft's focus on something useless like a smilie. How is that scummy? Are you suggesting that I'm scum with supersoft like Sloosh did? Otherwise I don't see a reason why scum would bother to get in the way of an easy mislynch.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 17:41 GMT
#578
On January 15 2013 01:41 Lazermonkey wrote:
Xatalos, please look at the case on me and tell me what you think. Also, look up SS and hopeless.


Looks like Prom based his case around you lying about reading the thread before posting (but not doing so) and sheeping the bandwagon on supersoft. I admit it doesn't make you look great, but it's doesn't convince me of your scumminess. Laziness isn't a scum-specific trait, nor did you actually even lie there (more like you failed to meet your own standards). The best point he makes is your weak sheep vote on supersoft.

That case of Hopeless is just... hopeless. Basically he's saying "I can't get supersoft lynched today, but hey, let's just lynch Lazermonkey because... his case on Jay isn't good enough?". He doesn't even say that OMGUS is a bad argument, he says that WBG thinks so, which makes me doubt if he even believed so himself. It feels very forced and more like a desperate justification for voting an appealing bandwagon.

I'm pretty sure supersoft is town. He's been very active with scumhunting (starting with the pressure on Jay and continuing relentlessly throughout his filter) and he's also been extremely open with all of his reads. There are bad points in his lists, like speculating what saying "I'm town" means, but it just reads try-hard town to me. Kind of like how I over-analyzed things in my first town game.

I can see Hopeless being scum. Especially with his latest moves like abandoning the supersoft wagon because it met some resistance, and then voting you with very weak reasons. It reads like he switched from a stronger scumread to a weaker one with the main reason being to sheep the thread. At least he made a long case for supersoft with lots of arguments, but I can see no conviction on his "case" for you. He did suspect Kush earlier though, which makes it a bit more sensible, although he just bases his vote very weakly around your case on Jay instead.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 18:19 GMT
#599
On January 15 2013 02:55 jaybrundage wrote:
I have been quieter this game unfortunately a combination of my work schedule, and I find it hard to contribute day one especially with so many new people I haven't played with before. During Hero MM i got mislynched so I have been working to change the way I play the game. Look up my most recent game in British MM if you wanna see my most recent play. One of the things I have been trying to eliminate is posting with out having a clear goal in mind cause people usually end up mislynching me : (

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On January 14 2013 19:08 Lazermonkey wrote:
I can lynch Jay. He is super non-commital this game. He basically doesn't have any strong reads at all. Everytime he posts about someone he is saying stuff like :
filter
On January 13 2013 10:01 Hapahauli wrote:
@ Jay

Please answer my question. Why are you pushing Kush out of one side of your mouth, then proposing a Sloosh RNG lynch out of the other? It reads a lot like you don't give a shit about who dies.

I have been quieter this game unfortunately a combination of my work schedule, and I find it hard to contribute day one especially with so many new people I haven't played with before. During Hero MM i got mislynched so I have been working to change the way I play the game. Look up my most recent game in British MM if you wanna see my most recent play. One of the things I have been trying to eliminate is posting with out having a clear goal in mind cause people usually end up mislynching me : (

Well I just didnt like Kushs post it rubbed me the wrong way way play detrimental on purpose. Does it make him scum? No.
On January 13 2013 11:08 jaybrundage wrote:
@Xalalos

Well Zentor is already defending me lol. I can see him being townie again. Althought i never seen a scummy Zentor.

But as it is so far im leaning town. But regardless i rather not talk about town reads. Anything you think is scummmy as of yet?
He is doing this all the time and its a great way to appear contributing when you are in fact not.

Look at his filter from Hero MM http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=384953&user=56992&currentpage=All
He seems way more active and dishes out alot of scum reads during the strat of D1. He doesn't this game.

Also, his vote on Xata is pure OMGUS

##Vote: jaybrundage

@X Im not gonna go down a useless arguement about who has done what in cases of usefulness. And yes usually im an easy mislynch because I dont properly display townie traits when I am in fact town. Regardless I have been trying to change this British MM was a result of that.


Why won't you do something useful then instead of complaining how much of a lynchbait you are?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 18:37 GMT
#608
On January 15 2013 03:13 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2013 03:03 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 15 2013 02:56 jaybrundage wrote:
Just so yall know i will be leaving in 2 hours for work so I wont be here for the deadline.
Then by all means, post everything about everything. You will probebly not get lynched today anyway.

Eh thats the problem i have trouble having opinions on people day 1.

And I'm hesitant to post with out coherent thoughts on people.

I still think Xatalos has a good chance of flipping scum. His early game questioning seemed alot like scum probing peoples thoughts early with out really giving his own thoughts. Then when some pressure was applied on him he went to a case on me. I was pushed on as a mislynch in Hero MM day one VE who was scum actually made a pretty big case on me. So I have a feeling like that is what is happening here.



Why are you so vague in your suspicion of me? You use wording like "his play seemed a lot like scum" or "I have a feeling like that is what is happening here". Do you think so or do you merely suggest that thought to others? And that last part is just WIFOM.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 18:41 GMT
#611
On January 15 2013 03:23 wherebugsgo wrote:
First of all, we're not lynching jay today. Anyone who is calling him scum right now is either is scum or dumb, since they probably have never played with him before. You need time to catch players like jay, because they play scum and town very similarly. He's mislynch bait as town, and I would argue that as scum he'd probably be much harder to lynch-they always are.

Secondly, there are 6 hours left in the day and we need to consolidate. I would very much like that we consolidate on Xatalos or Zentor. We have 3 nonvoters, one of whom has done nothing (Ruuch) one of whom should have actually done something already (supersoft) and one of whom very well might be scum (Zentor)


You're usually very aggressive and push strong for your reads. Why are you just soft defending Jay and pushing me so weakly? I can actually imagine the answer.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 18:44 GMT
#613
On January 15 2013 03:41 wherebugsgo wrote:
it's pretty hard to tell, given your calibre of play, whether you are stupid or scum.

In fact, it's been hard for the last several games, the easiest being LVIII.


What do you mean LVIII? I haven't played in such game.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 19:03 GMT
#619
On January 15 2013 03:48 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2013 03:44 Xatalos wrote:
On January 15 2013 03:41 wherebugsgo wrote:
it's pretty hard to tell, given your calibre of play, whether you are stupid or scum.

In fact, it's been hard for the last several games, the easiest being LVIII.


What do you mean LVIII? I haven't played in such game.


I meant players in general, not just you.


Right... But if I'm so hard to read, why are you so willing to lynch me? Even though you're giving Jay a free pass for the exact same reason? The more I think about, the more I'm starting to lean scum on you.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 19:08 GMT
#623
WBG and supersoft, why are you both just sheeping to vote Lazermonkey suddenly?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 19:13 GMT
#628
On January 15 2013 04:11 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2013 04:03 Xatalos wrote:
On January 15 2013 03:48 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 15 2013 03:44 Xatalos wrote:
On January 15 2013 03:41 wherebugsgo wrote:
it's pretty hard to tell, given your calibre of play, whether you are stupid or scum.

In fact, it's been hard for the last several games, the easiest being LVIII.


What do you mean LVIII? I haven't played in such game.


I meant players in general, not just you.


Right... But if I'm so hard to read, why are you so willing to lynch me? Even though you're giving Jay a free pass for the exact same reason? The more I think about, the more I'm starting to lean scum on you.


because everyone in this game is like that.

Also, at the very least I have several games played with jay, and so far (crosses fingers) I have not been incorrect about him.

Also, from what I remember your play as town is not like this.


Please elaborate. Is meta all this is about? I have played very differently between games as both town and scum though.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 19:17 GMT
#631
Unrelated to the topics at hand, but Sloosh, did you forget about me? You made your entrance to the thread by posting a big case on me, I posted a big reply, and you ignored it. It seems like you went after Prom and forgot what you said about me. What's the deal?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 19:29 GMT
#635
This bandwagon on Lazermonkey is just gaining steam way too fast. It has to be supported by Mafia or this wouldn't be possible. And do any of you actually think Kush was scum despite his anti-town play? And why is Lazermonkey being sheeped on without reasoning?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 19:42 GMT
#641
On January 15 2013 04:29 Promethelax wrote:
wow, seriously, those are your reads? Terrible.

You said that you had not read the thread while simultaneously building a case on someone who had just been cased and calling him the scummiest person in the thread. That is deeply troubling and very scummy.

There is nothing you have done in this game that makes you feel like a townie. This is a big problem for me since in LVIII I had had you down as quite green thank you so very much.

Your case on jay is weak and in many ways I feel the Chezinu rule applies to him. He is such a weak player that someone making him their main target (if he is town) is very likely to be scum.


I agree that his sheep vote on supersoft was scummy, but that's pretty much the only thing. There are many reasons for him to be town though:

- Kush's attention-grabbing entrance to the thread
- Kush's overall anti-town and scummy behaviour - suicidal for any actual scum
- Lazermonkey has been very active and made sense even under heavy pressure

That last argument is just WIFOM as well.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 20:31 GMT
#663
On January 15 2013 04:47 Promethelax wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2013 04:42 Xatalos wrote:
On January 15 2013 04:29 Promethelax wrote:
wow, seriously, those are your reads? Terrible.

You said that you had not read the thread while simultaneously building a case on someone who had just been cased and calling him the scummiest person in the thread. That is deeply troubling and very scummy.

There is nothing you have done in this game that makes you feel like a townie. This is a big problem for me since in LVIII I had had you down as quite green thank you so very much.

Your case on jay is weak and in many ways I feel the Chezinu rule applies to him. He is such a weak player that someone making him their main target (if he is town) is very likely to be scum.


I agree that his sheep vote on supersoft was scummy, but that's pretty much the only thing. There are many reasons for him to be town though:

- Kush's attention-grabbing entrance to the thread
- Kush's overall anti-town and scummy behaviour - suicidal for any actual scum
- Lazermonkey has been very active and made sense even under heavy pressure

That last argument is just WIFOM as well.


Those points you have for Kush are great. If it wasn't Kush. Did you read WC? Or any of his scum games? Many of us have while you haven't and I know you probably don't like being told you don't know what you are talking about but you have no idea what you are talking about. Kush plays that way as either alignment.

LM has made sense? What does that even mean. You agree with his case on jay? You think SS is scum and Thrawn town? You deeply believe that hopeless is retarded? Please explain this.


I read the beginning of Kush's filter in Witchcraft. I have to agree that Kush isn't afraid of attention as scum either. BUT there's a big difference: in Witchcraft Kush is pretty reasonable and doesn't actually play anti-town at all. At least I'm not seeing it. Here he begins the game by grabbing negative attention and setting himself up for a lynch (or at least losing sympathy points). He also keeps doing anti-town/scummy things, while in Witchcraft he keeps discussing reasonably and doesn't slip anything scummy-looking. Or can you show me wrong?

I agree with Lazermonkey on Jay and Thrawn. I disagree on supersoft and Hopeless. You can read what I think of them in my filter. What I meant is that he doesn't freak out, OMGUS, dodge questions or anything like that. He is calm and makes sense even in such a bad spot.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 20:37 GMT
#667
Btw Sloosh, since you're here. Are you avoiding me or something? You haven't answered me for a long time, why?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 22:08 GMT
#707
Back.

Is Promethelax getting lynched right now?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 22:48 GMT
#740
On January 15 2013 07:07 slOosh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2013 05:37 Xatalos wrote:
Btw Sloosh, since you're here. Are you avoiding me or something? You haven't answered me for a long time, why?

Show nested quote +
On January 14 2013 15:37 slOosh wrote:
Sleeping now, and if it isn't clear I think Prom is scum and prefer him over Xatalos.

An answer is implicit in the fact that I've dropped you to go after Prom. There's currently nothing to be gained from me interacting with you unless you have some insight into Prom that you have yet to share.


Hmm. I can accept that you're focusing on Prom now, close to the lynch, but why did you totally ignore me earlier in the day after you made your case on me? Even though I responded to your case and questioned you about that? It just feels weird that you would drop any interest you had in your #1 scumread after making a new case. Were you even serious about that case on me?

I think Prom has a chance of flipping scum. Not as good as Jay, or even as good as someone like Hopeless (sheeping, no commitment, weak reasoning) or WBG (sheeping, weak stances, wanting to lynch me despite saying I'm hard to read when he gave Jay a free pass for the same thing). But he's a far better lynch than Lazermonkey:

- Giving up on supersoft because the wagon didn't get supported well enough (literally saying "nobody has me as town" as his reasoning)
- Basing his scumread on Lazermonkey partly on exaggerating his "lie" that wasn't actually a lie - it was just something he said he'd do but failed to achieve, and nothing indicates he had a malicious intent here
- Lots of opinion switches with questionable reasoning, sheeping the flow of the thread
- Only targeting "easy" lynch candidates and avoiding having to actually push his reads
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 14 2013 22:51 GMT
#741
Actually, I really need to go sleep now, so I'm just going to vote for Prom.

##Unvote jaybrundage
##Vote Promethelax


Since Jay isn't happening today and there's a chance that Lazermonkey would end up lynched (despite Prom leading in votes right now).
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 15 2013 15:26 GMT
#874
On January 15 2013 11:03 jaybrundage wrote:
So Prom got lynched. Sucks Xatalos didnt get pushed thru : (

Ruunc almost got lynched for the sheep vote rofl. I almost feel bad for the guy. He should of started playing in newbie game.
If hes scum he might be able to easily get away with the im new dont vote me crap. Also if this is his first game it seems like he doesnt really care about the game just went with what ever the thread was doing.

SS you stated that you were lynching for information. So Lazor Sloosh are your two big scum reads. Who do you play to lynch first?

Also I dont like Grush he seems very unopinionated and just goes with what ever the thread is doing.

He calls out that he thinks both of the biggest candidates are scummy. But doesnt give any reasoning or thought to why there scum.
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On January 15 2013 05:46 grush57 wrote:
Sorry guys, school and sleeping takes a big part of not being here, the first thing I do is read the thread :D.
I think both Lazermonkey and Prome are pretty scummy, in fact they might be bussing eachother.


And then he arbitrarily decides on the "prom train" Again with no reasoning or thought behind it. Grush wants a mislynch so he hops right on. While at the same time not giving reasoning.


Show nested quote +
On January 15 2013 05:55 grush57 wrote:
Alright I'll get on the prome train.
Choo Choo!
##Unvote
##Vote: Promethelax



And i heard about his town breadcrumb Starsenses? Plz tell me people dont actually consider this alignment indicative. Why wouldnt he just say that if hes scum this game...

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On January 14 2013 02:52 grush57 wrote:
On January 13 2013 20:09 Promethelax wrote:
Lol at bugs, I'm scum because I was at work when the game started.

Is there some unspoken rule about us not asking grush to give us his town breadcrumb? Because that is all I want from him right now.

For those of you who haven't played with Kush assume he is similar to chezinu but without either the class or the ability to find scum. He is a troll who will troll all game long but it
Isn't too hard to get a read on. I would like to hear both Hapa and thrawn's opinions of Kush. They know how to read him, as do I.

Super, are you town?

Zentor, can I expect you to be useful This game or should I put you into the troll column?

Jay, what's your read of zentor?

Slopsh, opinions on anyone who doesn't have a million point scrabble name.


You're right, I forgot.

STARSENSES



Thoughts?


Actually you're right, grush isn't looking good so far. But why didn't you write posts like this during D1 at all? All you achieved was basically a weak counter-vote on me and nothing after that. Mostly you were either lurking or responding to my pressure, with some random slight suspicions mixed in. Also, do you want to lynch me or grush now?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 15 2013 15:31 GMT
#877
Why is Hapa a Serial Killer?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 15 2013 15:36 GMT
#881
On January 15 2013 23:35 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 15 2013 23:28 supersoft wrote:
hey scumteam, hapahauli is the serial killer! better shoot him tonight. :-)
If Hapa is the serial killer, wouldn't it be quite bad to shoot him tonight....? For several reasons.


Why would Lazermonkey, as scum, even post this? And I don't see a lie here. It's unuseful to shoot someone with KP protection. Although I still don't get it why Hapa is suddenly SK.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 15 2013 22:16 GMT
#918
Welcome iamperfection, I don't think it will be hard for you to be more useful than Ruuch... And sorry for bringing Ruuch here, I guess I made a mistake about his interest in Mafia (clearly SC2 Mafia and TL Mafia were too different). I couldn't even coach him because we were in the same game :/

On the off chance that I die tonight (going to sleep after writing this), I want everyone to also look at wherebugsgo tomorrow. There are just too many things wrong with him for it to be merely poor town play. Especially considering how experienced he is.

1) Posting a lot of useless "list" posts where he just throws dirt at most of the players in the game for little to no reason.

On January 13 2013 16:03 wherebugsgo wrote:
super, agree/disagree:

three of four

Hopeless
Xatalos
Zentor
Promethelax


On January 14 2013 07:39 wherebugsgo wrote:
He wasn't on my list because he didn't stand out to me on my first read, only on subsequent reads.

I need to do more rereading since I really wanted to kill kush today. Tentatively I'd put Hopeless and Xatalos up there, followed by Zentor.



On January 15 2013 03:37 wherebugsgo wrote:
I just finished reading.

Add LM to my list, I guess. I still think Xatalos needs to die, and Zentor is still missing.

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On January 15 2013 03:26 thrawn2112 wrote:
wbg, why does your play seem so half-assed compared to your usual standard?

"Secondly, there are 6 hours left in the day and we need to consolidate. I would very much like that we consolidate on Xatalos or Zentor. We have 3 nonvoters, one of whom has done nothing (Ruuch) one of whom should have actually done something already (supersoft) and one of whom very well might be scum (Zentor)"

this is like the weakest push i've ever seen from you


when you have as much confidence in the forum as I do right now, you probably wouldn't give a shit either.


On January 15 2013 05:30 wherebugsgo wrote:
either way if Lazer flips I'd still be interested in Xatalos, but if Lazer flips town hopeless looks much worse.


On January 15 2013 11:19 wherebugsgo wrote:
Hapa, thrawn, and slOosh I basically have auto-town reads on. I hope they don't turn into the sciberbias of this game. (I had an auto-town read on Prom too)

Xatalos (1): jaybrundage
Promethelax (7): slOosh, thrawn2112, grush57, MrZentor, Xatalos, Ruuch, Supersoft
Lazermonkey (1): Promethelax
Ruuch (4): Lazermonkey, wherebugsgo, Hapahauli, Hopeless1der

The bolded votes are shady. Ruuch avoided a modkill/replacement by voting right before the deadline. I think that's too close to consider that coincidence. We will have to kill him at some point and there's almost no way scum will shoot him, ever. I suppose we can push him off till later, but I know the game will come down to it at some point.

Jay, don't waste your vote tomorrow if you are town. If I die tonight and jay gets away without contributing much, please someone tunnel the fuck out of him.

Secondly, the late votes on Prom: Ruuch's is the worst. Xatalos's is also pretty bad, considering that I never actually felt that he cared about the lynch. His argument was that he preferred Prom over Lazer. Whatever. Zentor and Grush are basically either trolls or scum, and grush's contributions this game err on the side of scum for me.

In addition to all of these players we have Hopeless, who seems to be feigning reasonability to live. He doesn't seem to be very interested in finding scum, either.

So, we have at least 4-5 players who I would confidently label "antitown" and not all of them can be scum. Wonderful.



On January 16 2013 02:48 wherebugsgo wrote:
one thing that bothers me about jay's posting is that he summarized a bunch of shit for no good reason.

I looked through jubjub and if I remember correctly he did it a bit in that game as scum, but I'm not entirely sure whether he would post this much content as scum (he didn't there)

Anyway, if I'm not back before deadline, and I die, for tomorrow:

1. Either force Ruuch to play the game, or kill him.
2. Keep an eye on Xatalos, grush, Hopeless, at least one of them is likely scum IMO.
3. It's fairly likely that there's a scum between the more active/towny looking players, there almost always is. Between super and slOosh, if they at any point stop making sense or lead bad lynches, or have reads that are terrible, kill them. I can't necessarily say the same about the other players since they are more likely to do stupid shit as town. If you end up having an "auto-town" read on one of these players and the game goes to lylo, and they have not been under suspicion all game, consider killing them at that point. This is what I meant about the sciberbia thing, in Yet Another Mini I had an auto-town read and occasional niggling suspicion about sciberbia but it never was fleshed out into any sort of read and I perpetually procrastinated on fully reading his posts because I didn't view them as that important. I basically didn't pay attention to him. Don't make that same mistake.
4. If there are two kills at any point in the game, strongly consider the possibility of SK.



2) Completely sheeping both his opinion and vote on Lazermonkey.

On January 15 2013 03:37 wherebugsgo wrote:
I just finished reading.

Add LM to my list, I guess. I still think Xatalos needs to die, and Zentor is still missing.


On January 15 2013 03:38 wherebugsgo wrote:
##unvote
##vote LazerMonkey


3) Willing to lynch MrZentor despite certainly knowing that this is exactly MrZentor's town meta with his experience.

On January 14 2013 12:39 wherebugsgo wrote:
I am completely down to kill Zentor as an alternative to Xatalos today as well.

His play has seemed somehow different this game, and he seems to be inconsistent. I am more confident in Xatalos, though.


4) Being frustrated when an anti-town (lynchbait) player, Kush, gets replaced. He should be happy as town!

On January 14 2013 06:17 wherebugsgo wrote:
##unvote

That's annoying. I'll be back in a few hours.


5) Not showing any real seriousness or interest about the D1 lynch.

On January 15 2013 03:38 wherebugsgo wrote:
##unvote
##vote LazerMonkey


On January 15 2013 06:49 wherebugsgo wrote:
I would very much like to last minute lynch zentor if possible.

##unvote

##vote MrZentor

On January 15 2013 08:58 wherebugsgo wrote:
If that were anyone else I would call that a scumclaim.

So, let's treat him like anyone else LOL

##unvote
##vote Ruuch


6) Last and the least: wanting to eagerly lynch me despite me being so "hard to read", but giving Jay a 100% free pass during D1 for the same reason. A pretty contradicting approach.

On January 14 2013 10:55 wherebugsgo wrote:
I think xatalos is a fine lynch for today, but I need to read up on his past games to make sure that he is the best lynch.

I don't agree with lynching super, so whoever is on him should probably consider moving their votes. On reread Hopeless doesn't seem that bad, just really lazy. I want him to actually do something though, or I may consider pushing him tomorrow, assuming I'm alive.

Ruuch: play the game or I'll stop giving you the newbie free card.

##vote Xatalos



On January 15 2013 03:41 wherebugsgo wrote:
it's pretty hard to tell, given your calibre of play, whether you are stupid or scum.

In fact, it's been hard for the last several games, the easiest being LVIII.

"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 06:32 GMT
#989
I wouldn't be surprised if Hopeless flipped scum (given his lurkiness, sheeping and indifference to the lynch) but there are two far better options: WBG and Jay. I just can't imagine WBG being town right now. Especially his suspicion-flinging "lists", sheeping and wanting to lynch town-meta MrZ are just unimaginable if he was town.

##Vote wherebugsgo

@WBG: anything to say for your defense? You have posted a lot after I made my case but never even mentioned it. Why are you avoiding defending yourself and instead just diverting to an easy lynch of Hopeless?

@Jay: you've been pretty lurky lately and haven't pushed your reads at any point in the game. Why are you not scum?

@Hopeless: why were you apathetic just because "nobody was talking to you"? As town, you should be proactive. Scum are reactive. That's an extremely reactive way of thinking.

@Sloosh: your play hasn't been looking good lately. Lurking the night, then going for the easiest possible wagon when pressured. Not to mention going for me with a big case D1 but forgetting about it soon after - did you just see it wasn't going anywhere and jumped off the ship?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 16:41 GMT
#999
I really dislike how both WBG and Sloosh are approaching this lynch. They're basically just agreeing to lynch Hopeless because he's the easiest bandwagon, not because he's the scummiest. Actually they're abandoning scumhunting and just going with the easiest possible way out of the discussion. Especially WBG is suspicious for abandoning his strongest scumread just to hop onto an easy bandwagon.

On January 16 2013 20:17 Lazermonkey wrote:
I'm wary of lynching Hopeless. I think his play this game is VERY similar to his play last game. I tunneled the shit out of him that game for stuff that are very much alike to this game. He didn't really push scum reads, he seemed very uninterested in the D1 lynch(both canidates were town), etc. Needless to say, he was town. I'm not actually very confident in lynching Hopeless.

Filter: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=373946&user=123725


Hopeless is definitely not our best lynch. He may have a reasonable chance of flipping scum, but there's nothing particularly damning about him. Then again, if you look at WBG's usual strong town play and his seriously sheepish and subtly suspicion-spreading attitude this game, he must be scum.


On January 16 2013 17:28 jaybrundage wrote:
Sloosh looks like scum to me. He makes a a case on Hopeless1der.

But its mostly just a test case to see if WBG is scummy. When WBG starts putting pressure on him he OMGUS's but ends up backing off and saying lets just lynch Hopeless1der instead.

I agree that Hopeless hasn't contributed much at all this game and that he does look scummy. But the fact that Sloosh wants to vote for hopeless seems really suspect to me. Why would scum vote for there partner when there are other lynch candidates today. He could of picked out of alot of different people like grush lazer. It doesn't make any sense that he would pick someone that would be his partner.

It feels like Sloosh is taking the easy way out. He didnt feel confident to try to lych town WBG so he backs off and decided to go for Hopeless again.

@Xatalos Its called doing shit man you should try it. Also did you not read my grush case i still feel he's scum. But as of yet there has been no support for lynching him and he has yet to post anything much since then.

Don't think I have forgotten you. While your posting hasn't sucked as much dick as did before. Doesn't mean I dont think your not scum.

##Vote SloOsh


It feels like your posting is getting a bit better as time goes on. At least you're actually posting reads now... Still, your Day 1 play was pretty damn scummy. You avoided giving actual reads for most of the day, then OMGUS-voted me and avoided doing anything about the actual lynch candidates after that. There's really nothing you can do about that now, so even though your latest posts are a change for the better, it doesn't remove how Day 1 played out.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 16:44 GMT
#1003
On January 17 2013 01:25 wherebugsgo wrote:
Supposing you're town, hopeless:

Would you be down to lynch slOosh? For the record I'd be willing to lynch into any of slOosh/LM/grush/Zentor, my priority being that order.


Don't you have anything to say about the several reasons for you to be scum? And for the record, when and why did your scumread on me disappear?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 16:51 GMT
#1007
On January 17 2013 01:45 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 01:44 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 01:25 wherebugsgo wrote:
Supposing you're town, hopeless:

Would you be down to lynch slOosh? For the record I'd be willing to lynch into any of slOosh/LM/grush/Zentor, my priority being that order.


Don't you have anything to say about the several reasons for you to be scum? And for the record, when and why did your scumread on me disappear?


nope, there are no reasons to call me scum.

This is the last time I'll address this: it's not worth my time to reply to things like this.

Read Ver's guide.


Lol, are you saying all those scummy things you did are no reason to call you scum? Yet you've sheeped on several players (LM, Hopeless) with no reasoning and called them scum? There's a gaping hole in logic here somewhere.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 16:58 GMT
#1008
On January 17 2013 01:44 MrZentor wrote:
##unvote
##vote slOosh


Gogogogogo


Why have you been inactive for a long time (basically since the D1 lynch) and now just come by to drop a vote? This isn't the MrZentor I know. Please be more active.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 17:01 GMT
#1010
Not to mention that you absolutely owned the lategame in British Mafia. Can't you play like that now? And not just at LYLO?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 17:12 GMT
#1013
On January 17 2013 02:05 thrawn2112 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 02:01 Xatalos wrote:
Not to mention that you absolutely owned the lategame in British Mafia. Can't you play like that now? And not just at LYLO?


what do you think of his alignment?


He fits his town meta very well for D1, but I don't like him lurking during N1 and the beginning part of D2. He's also just sheeping Sloosh now I still think he's town though, since he did some similar things (lurking and sheeping) as town, especially in Paranoia Mafia. He's just bending my faith slightly now.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 17:13 GMT
#1015
On January 17 2013 02:09 MrZentor wrote:
Xatalos, the people in that game were less experienced than the ones in this game, making them much easier to read.


Aren't more experienced players actually easier to read with their meta?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 17:19 GMT
#1018
On January 17 2013 02:13 thrawn2112 wrote:
what about stuff other than meta?


MrZentor is really a special case, since he always plays in a weird and slightly trollish way. It's proven time and time again that it's no use judging him by normal standards. I tried to do that in Paranoia Mafia and failed... It's better to read him with mostly meta. If this wasn't MrZentor, I'd be quite worried about him at this point. Not to the same extent as someone like WBG or Jay though.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 17:20 GMT
#1019
On January 17 2013 02:15 MrZentor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 02:13 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 02:09 MrZentor wrote:
Xatalos, the people in that game were less experienced than the ones in this game, making them much easier to read.


Aren't more experienced players actually easier to read with their meta?


No.


Please elaborate :/
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 17:58 GMT
#1024
On January 17 2013 02:21 thrawn2112 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 02:19 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 02:13 thrawn2112 wrote:
what about stuff other than meta?


MrZentor is really a special case, since he always plays in a weird and slightly trollish way. It's proven time and time again that it's no use judging him by normal standards. I tried to do that in Paranoia Mafia and failed... It's better to read him with mostly meta. If this wasn't MrZentor, I'd be quite worried about him at this point. Not to the same extent as someone like WBG or Jay though.



that's too simplistic of an approach. can you actually tell me what you think of the specific things he's done this game?


I haven't actually read his filter that much since I have a townread on him. But let's see:

- He defends several players (mostly Jay and Kush) with conviction, backed up with reasoning and pointing out mistakes in arguments against them - this is definitely townish play, since why would scum MrZentor go so far to put his neck on the line? Even if we consider these players to be scum, it would be much more natural for scum MrZentor to ignore these attention-grabbing situations or to confuse the attention away from them somehow

- He asks a lot of questions and argues about several topics - at least he's very active and engaged in the thread, which is good, but he doesn't really push any scumreads, which isn't good

- He posts some "lists" with his suspicions without taking any action based on them, which is worrying to say the least

- He sheeps to vote Prom even though Prom is never included in his suspicions... in fact he never calls Prom scum.... then he pretty much defends himself with meta and argues about off-topic stuff until Prom is lynched... then he disappears for two days from the thread.... ugh, this is all scummy

- He sheeps again the major wagon on Sloosh without giving even a shred of reasoning... why, oh why

Looking at this without meta, it does look pretty bad, but you have to consider that he played very similarly in Paranoia Mafia (and was town of course). He sheeped all his votes there and (almost) never gave proper reasoning. So you just can't use normal standards with him or you fail miserably.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 18:27 GMT
#1031
On January 17 2013 03:17 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 03:13 Hapahauli wrote:
Apparently no one does any thinking either, if we're going to lynch someone over Hopeless today.


I'd agree with that too, given that both thrawn and zentor simply swapped their votes over to slOosh as soon as I did.

I think both slOosh and Hopeless are good lynches for today. If they are both scum, and it's certainly possible, who does that leave us with for a third scum? Grush?

If one of them is not?


Do you actually even care about who gets lynched? And why are you using connections before any flips? And... why did you ignore my last post for you? Seriously, there's just too much wrong with you this game.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 18:31 GMT
#1033
On January 17 2013 03:26 Hapahauli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 03:17 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:13 Hapahauli wrote:
Apparently no one does any thinking either, if we're going to lynch someone over Hopeless today.


I'd agree with that too, given that both thrawn and zentor simply swapped their votes over to slOosh as soon as I did.

I think both slOosh and Hopeless are good lynches for today. If they are both scum, and it's certainly possible, who does that leave us with for a third scum? Grush?

If one of them is not?


My first concern is seeing Hopeless hang, and then we'll find the rest. SloOsh could be scum based on how he handled himself last night (flinging shit at you, willingness to compromise on Hopeless), but I'm not convinced. As for a 3rd, I have no idea. I was originally thinking Lazer, but given how hard Hopeless decided to push him, I don't think that's realistic.


Aren't you in the slightest suspicious of either WBG or Jay? Seriously, why?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 19:27 GMT
#1040
On January 17 2013 03:49 Hapahauli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 03:31 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:26 Hapahauli wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:17 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:13 Hapahauli wrote:
Apparently no one does any thinking either, if we're going to lynch someone over Hopeless today.


I'd agree with that too, given that both thrawn and zentor simply swapped their votes over to slOosh as soon as I did.

I think both slOosh and Hopeless are good lynches for today. If they are both scum, and it's certainly possible, who does that leave us with for a third scum? Grush?

If one of them is not?


My first concern is seeing Hopeless hang, and then we'll find the rest. SloOsh could be scum based on how he handled himself last night (flinging shit at you, willingness to compromise on Hopeless), but I'm not convinced. As for a 3rd, I have no idea. I was originally thinking Lazer, but given how hard Hopeless decided to push him, I don't think that's realistic.


Aren't you in the slightest suspicious of either WBG or Jay? Seriously, why?


See the above post + my night-post for more info.

What do you think about my case on Hopeless?


So WBG gets a pass for being active? Did you even read my case? Where do you see him being "concerned" really? He was pretty unbelievably indifferent about the D1 lynch, and now he's open to several different lynches depending on how the thread goes...

I think the case on Hopeless is decent, but most of those points - indifference about the lynch, weak attitude to pushing scumreads, flinging suspicion at people without pushing them - apply to WBG as well (especially during D1). Actually even MrZentor has done similar stuff - and he's most likely town. I do think that Hopeless has done scummy things but he's not our best lynch.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 20:03 GMT
#1052
On January 17 2013 04:30 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 04:27 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:49 Hapahauli wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:31 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:26 Hapahauli wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:17 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:13 Hapahauli wrote:
Apparently no one does any thinking either, if we're going to lynch someone over Hopeless today.


I'd agree with that too, given that both thrawn and zentor simply swapped their votes over to slOosh as soon as I did.

I think both slOosh and Hopeless are good lynches for today. If they are both scum, and it's certainly possible, who does that leave us with for a third scum? Grush?

If one of them is not?


My first concern is seeing Hopeless hang, and then we'll find the rest. SloOsh could be scum based on how he handled himself last night (flinging shit at you, willingness to compromise on Hopeless), but I'm not convinced. As for a 3rd, I have no idea. I was originally thinking Lazer, but given how hard Hopeless decided to push him, I don't think that's realistic.


Aren't you in the slightest suspicious of either WBG or Jay? Seriously, why?


See the above post + my night-post for more info.

What do you think about my case on Hopeless?


So WBG gets a pass for being active? Did you even read my case? Where do you see him being "concerned" really? He was pretty unbelievably indifferent about the D1 lynch, and now he's open to several different lynches depending on how the thread goes...

I think the case on Hopeless is decent, but most of those points - indifference about the lynch, weak attitude to pushing scumreads, flinging suspicion at people without pushing them - apply to WBG as well (especially during D1). Actually even MrZentor has done similar stuff - and he's most likely town. I do think that Hopeless has done scummy things but he's not our best lynch.


Congratulations, you just proved that indifference and uncertainty is not always scum indicative.

Now please pay attention to the thread and take off your fucking confirmation bias goggles.


Not always, but more often than not. Why would town be indifferent towards their win condition (lynching scum)? Scum, on the other hand, would be playing towards their win condition by leaving their options open. MrZentor is a special case and doesn't count. You have no such excuse.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 20:04 GMT
#1053
On January 17 2013 04:47 slOosh wrote:
My point is that trying to figure out the whole scum team when we don't even have concrete OP information on the number of scum is a futile exercise, of which more harm will come than good.


Agreed.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 20:21 GMT
#1058
On January 17 2013 05:06 wherebugsgo wrote:
if there are 4 scum then how is that a bad assumption?

You kill 3 and then the game's not over, clearly there's someone left to kill. What a stupid argument, slOosh is just saying this to throw dirt on legitimate and well-reasoned assumptions on the setup. Indeed, he has nothing else to say, because he's scum.

Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 05:03 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 04:30 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 17 2013 04:27 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:49 Hapahauli wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:31 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:26 Hapahauli wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:17 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 17 2013 03:13 Hapahauli wrote:
Apparently no one does any thinking either, if we're going to lynch someone over Hopeless today.


I'd agree with that too, given that both thrawn and zentor simply swapped their votes over to slOosh as soon as I did.

I think both slOosh and Hopeless are good lynches for today. If they are both scum, and it's certainly possible, who does that leave us with for a third scum? Grush?

If one of them is not?


My first concern is seeing Hopeless hang, and then we'll find the rest. SloOsh could be scum based on how he handled himself last night (flinging shit at you, willingness to compromise on Hopeless), but I'm not convinced. As for a 3rd, I have no idea. I was originally thinking Lazer, but given how hard Hopeless decided to push him, I don't think that's realistic.


Aren't you in the slightest suspicious of either WBG or Jay? Seriously, why?


See the above post + my night-post for more info.

What do you think about my case on Hopeless?


So WBG gets a pass for being active? Did you even read my case? Where do you see him being "concerned" really? He was pretty unbelievably indifferent about the D1 lynch, and now he's open to several different lynches depending on how the thread goes...

I think the case on Hopeless is decent, but most of those points - indifference about the lynch, weak attitude to pushing scumreads, flinging suspicion at people without pushing them - apply to WBG as well (especially during D1). Actually even MrZentor has done similar stuff - and he's most likely town. I do think that Hopeless has done scummy things but he's not our best lynch.


Congratulations, you just proved that indifference and uncertainty is not always scum indicative.

Now please pay attention to the thread and take off your fucking confirmation bias goggles.


Not always, but more often than not. Why would town be indifferent towards their win condition (lynching scum)? Scum, on the other hand, would be playing towards their win condition by leaving their options open. MrZentor is a special case and doesn't count. You have no such excuse.


lol wut

I'm not indifferent to lynching scum, I'm indifferent to having to talk repeatedly to people like you.



If you're not indifferent, how do you explain your constant sheeping of the thread and switching your votes for the pettiest of reasons?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 20:34 GMT
#1064
On January 17 2013 05:18 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 05:09 wherebugsgo wrote:
slOosh's argument is "let's not try to figure out the whole scumteam at once, since we don't know whether there are 3 or 4 scum in this game."

Instead, let's do what slOosh is doing: let's sow doubt, not actually scumhunt, and come back into the thread every few hours to whine about something minor/irrelevant.

So lets lynch SlOosh then he seems more likely to be scum then hopeless. Also it doesn't make sense for him to try to push hopeless if they are indeed scum. He could of easily put a vote on Lazermonkey instead for instance.

Sloosh has been wishy washy and hesitant to push his scum reads. The reasoning being that as scum he doesnt want to straight up push WBG unless he can get some support for it. He completly backs down from it.

Also Grush where the hell have you been. You have been lurky and scummy all game. You never posted reasons for your vote. And you show a disinterest in helping town. I would also be willing to lynch grush today over hopeless. It seemed that he dropped of peoples radar.


By the way, where do you stand on me right now? Still scum? You had your vote on me for the whole D1 but haven't talked much at all about me ever since. Now it looks like you're just going for Sloosh, grush or Hopeless. Not that I disagree with those players being scummy, but what caused this change of heart?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 20:47 GMT
#1068
On January 17 2013 05:42 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 05:34 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 05:18 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 17 2013 05:09 wherebugsgo wrote:
slOosh's argument is "let's not try to figure out the whole scumteam at once, since we don't know whether there are 3 or 4 scum in this game."

Instead, let's do what slOosh is doing: let's sow doubt, not actually scumhunt, and come back into the thread every few hours to whine about something minor/irrelevant.

So lets lynch SlOosh then he seems more likely to be scum then hopeless. Also it doesn't make sense for him to try to push hopeless if they are indeed scum. He could of easily put a vote on Lazermonkey instead for instance.

Sloosh has been wishy washy and hesitant to push his scum reads. The reasoning being that as scum he doesnt want to straight up push WBG unless he can get some support for it. He completly backs down from it.

Also Grush where the hell have you been. You have been lurky and scummy all game. You never posted reasons for your vote. And you show a disinterest in helping town. I would also be willing to lynch grush today over hopeless. It seemed that he dropped of peoples radar.


By the way, where do you stand on me right now? Still scum? You had your vote on me for the whole D1 but haven't talked much at all about me ever since. Now it looks like you're just going for Sloosh, grush or Hopeless. Not that I disagree with those players being scummy, but what caused this change of heart?

I'm going for players I think are scum that can get lynched today. My read on you is null/slightly scummy. But there are people I think have a better chance to flip scum then you so i am pursuing my reads on them. Also I don't think we should lynch hopeless if sloosh is scum. I dont see hopeless flipping scum too.


Hmmm. Your recent posts have been townish so maybe you actually are town... What's your stance on WBG?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 21:14 GMT
#1072
On January 17 2013 05:53 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 05:47 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 05:42 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 17 2013 05:34 Xatalos wrote:
On January 17 2013 05:18 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 17 2013 05:09 wherebugsgo wrote:
slOosh's argument is "let's not try to figure out the whole scumteam at once, since we don't know whether there are 3 or 4 scum in this game."

Instead, let's do what slOosh is doing: let's sow doubt, not actually scumhunt, and come back into the thread every few hours to whine about something minor/irrelevant.

So lets lynch SlOosh then he seems more likely to be scum then hopeless. Also it doesn't make sense for him to try to push hopeless if they are indeed scum. He could of easily put a vote on Lazermonkey instead for instance.

Sloosh has been wishy washy and hesitant to push his scum reads. The reasoning being that as scum he doesnt want to straight up push WBG unless he can get some support for it. He completly backs down from it.

Also Grush where the hell have you been. You have been lurky and scummy all game. You never posted reasons for your vote. And you show a disinterest in helping town. I would also be willing to lynch grush today over hopeless. It seemed that he dropped of peoples radar.


By the way, where do you stand on me right now? Still scum? You had your vote on me for the whole D1 but haven't talked much at all about me ever since. Now it looks like you're just going for Sloosh, grush or Hopeless. Not that I disagree with those players being scummy, but what caused this change of heart?

I'm going for players I think are scum that can get lynched today. My read on you is null/slightly scummy. But there are people I think have a better chance to flip scum then you so i am pursuing my reads on them. Also I don't think we should lynch hopeless if sloosh is scum. I dont see hopeless flipping scum too.


Hmmm. Your recent posts have been townish so maybe you actually are town... What's your stance on WBG?

WBG i think is town. Both Sloosh being scum and WBG being scum makes no damn sense.

Also as i said earlier scum WBG would have no need to defend me. He would just use me as early mislynch foder. Day 1 is always tricky for me. But i find i can pick up more steam as the game goes along.


Are you basing your townread of WBG on Sloosh flipping scum? What if Sloosh is town? Is WBG still town then? And it's not that unlikely for scum WBG to say something in your defense... Almost everyone seemed to think of you as just a lynchbait at the time.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 16 2013 21:16 GMT
#1073
On January 17 2013 05:58 Lazermonkey wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2013 05:27 Hapahauli wrote:
On January 17 2013 05:17 Lazermonkey wrote:
Bugs, how do you go from:
On January 17 2013 01:42 wherebugsgo wrote:
alright, let's go for it. I actually like Hopeless's thoughts in his last post and Lazer looks much better because he pointed out something that I noticed too; in Hopeless's last game he played somewhat similar to this.

slOosh, on the other hand, is still scum.

##unvote
##vote slOosh
to
On January 17 2013 04:18 wherebugsgo wrote:
alright.

I'm feeling lazy so let's just kill Hopeless. I don't think anything is going to happen in the near future to make either read stronger and so it's just best to consolidate our votes rather than continue to inflate the thread with further pointless back-and-forths.

##unvote
##vote Hopeless1der
In just a couple of hours? And Hopeless didn't even say a thing during this time. Just you talking with Hapa and him calling the thread bad for not wanting to lynch Hopeless.

@Hapa: did you read hopeless filter from LVIII?


Yes I did. However that's only one game out of the multitude of his recent town games in which he played very aggressively.

In addition, I can't rationalize his stance on iamp from a town perspective:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=52#1022

Votes Ruuch, afks for the entire night cycle, comes back and says he thinks iamperfection is town for no reasoning, then proceeds to make arguments against me based on the "assumption" of iamp being town.

Furthermore, he stated that he didn't understand my reasoning for voting Ruuch, which is incredibly scummy considering that he voted Ruuch himself.
Meeeh, I really think Hopeless should be defending himself, but since he seem to suck at that... I feel like alot of your points, maybe even all of them, could be explained by the fact that Hopeless is bad. And do you see any scum motivation in scum motivation in saying that a player is suspicious for voting the same person that you are voting yourself? This just seems retarded as both alignments. Also, Hopeless feels like he bases alot of his reads on OMGUS(whoever votes him, he votes etc)

Also, I don't exactly see that he went from vote ruush to Iamp is town without explaination as scummy. ruush was a policy lynch and nothing else, and Iamp is clearly looking better than ruush to say the least.


You have some good points. Although this doesn't really explain his apathy and sheeping...
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 17 2013 21:27 GMT
#1219
On January 18 2013 02:25 wherebugsgo wrote:
also xatalos is still abstaining, which is hilarious.

You're not going to lynch me today, or probably ever. Pick between slOosh and Hopeless.


It really seems like Sloosh vs Hopeless at this point, yeah... That wasn't (at least completely) the case before I went to sleep + work, but now it's pretty much a waste to vote anyone else.

Considering Sloosh / Hopeless: I think one of them is likely scum, but it's very unlikely that they are both scum. Sloosh lurked all of N1 and only returned to the thread during D2 after he was pressured to give his opinions... And lately he's just talked about lurkers or how this lynch might affect people's scumreads. Hopeless looks worse though with his self-proclaimed townread on Prom (while at the same time soft pushing him and really not caring about him getting lynched), clear apathy towards scumhunting, switching his reads around very easily depending on the thread, inactivity... The list just goes on and on. Hopeless should be the one to get lynched.

##Unvote wherebugsgo
##Vote Hopeless1der
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 17 2013 21:50 GMT
#1221
thrawn, I'm guessing you're going to vote for Sloosh? Please reconsider. They can't both be scum (I seriously doubt there would be only 2 wagons in that case...) and just comparing Hopeless/Sloosh, not comparing any possible complete scumteams (that's pretty useless at this point), Hopeless is more likely scum. In addition, Sloosh promised to share his reads soon, but Hopeless has done nothing to that effect (basically he's just lurking and denying information).
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 17 2013 22:06 GMT
#1226
On January 18 2013 06:57 thrawn2112 wrote:
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On January 18 2013 06:50 Xatalos wrote:
thrawn, I'm guessing you're going to vote for Sloosh? Please reconsider. They can't both be scum (I seriously doubt there would be only 2 wagons in that case...) and just comparing Hopeless/Sloosh, not comparing any possible complete scumteams (that's pretty useless at this point), Hopeless is more likely scum. In addition, Sloosh promised to share his reads soon, but Hopeless has done nothing to that effect (basically he's just lurking and denying information).


how his sloosh promising to share his reads any better than hopeless not being around? and hopeless has more than done his part as far as sharing his reads go. sloosh came in while I was pushing LM and said nothing relevant to our conversation. as you are doing. sloosh may have posted more recently but there was nothing constructive in his post

what do you think about lazermonkey?



My read on Lazermonkey hasn't really changed much since I posted this:

On January 15 2013 05:31 Xatalos wrote:
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On January 15 2013 04:47 Promethelax wrote:
On January 15 2013 04:42 Xatalos wrote:
On January 15 2013 04:29 Promethelax wrote:
wow, seriously, those are your reads? Terrible.

You said that you had not read the thread while simultaneously building a case on someone who had just been cased and calling him the scummiest person in the thread. That is deeply troubling and very scummy.

There is nothing you have done in this game that makes you feel like a townie. This is a big problem for me since in LVIII I had had you down as quite green thank you so very much.

Your case on jay is weak and in many ways I feel the Chezinu rule applies to him. He is such a weak player that someone making him their main target (if he is town) is very likely to be scum.


I agree that his sheep vote on supersoft was scummy, but that's pretty much the only thing. There are many reasons for him to be town though:

- Kush's attention-grabbing entrance to the thread
- Kush's overall anti-town and scummy behaviour - suicidal for any actual scum
- Lazermonkey has been very active and made sense even under heavy pressure

That last argument is just WIFOM as well.


Those points you have for Kush are great. If it wasn't Kush. Did you read WC? Or any of his scum games? Many of us have while you haven't and I know you probably don't like being told you don't know what you are talking about but you have no idea what you are talking about. Kush plays that way as either alignment.

LM has made sense? What does that even mean. You agree with his case on jay? You think SS is scum and Thrawn town? You deeply believe that hopeless is retarded? Please explain this.


I read the beginning of Kush's filter in Witchcraft. I have to agree that Kush isn't afraid of attention as scum either. BUT there's a big difference: in Witchcraft Kush is pretty reasonable and doesn't actually play anti-town at all. At least I'm not seeing it. Here he begins the game by grabbing negative attention and setting himself up for a lynch (or at least losing sympathy points). He also keeps doing anti-town/scummy things, while in Witchcraft he keeps discussing reasonably and doesn't slip anything scummy-looking. Or can you show me wrong?

I agree with Lazermonkey on Jay and Thrawn. I disagree on supersoft and Hopeless. You can read what I think of them in my filter. What I meant is that he doesn't freak out, OMGUS, dodge questions or anything like that. He is calm and makes sense even in such a bad spot.


The discussion has focused on his "scumslips" today, but focusing on that is pretty stupid. The first one wasn't even anything scummy (just some stupid confusion) and the second one ("I haven't been posting because I'm not in danger of being lynched") looks pretty bad on the surface, but WHY would scum say something like that? It's just too stupid, and scum would think more carefully before saying something to bring unnecessary suspicion to themselves.
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Xatalos
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January 17 2013 22:09 GMT
#1229
On January 18 2013 07:08 thrawn2112 wrote:
you don't have a real read on him do you?


Wut...? I've had him as townread since early D1. Have you even actually taken a look at my filter?
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Xatalos
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January 17 2013 22:11 GMT
#1230
But talking about Lazermonkey is pretty much off-topic right now. thrawn, why not Hopeless?
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Xatalos
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January 17 2013 22:13 GMT
#1231
Ugh, I have to go sleep though I'm dead tired anyway and if I don't get some sleep now I'm going to fall asleep at work.
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Xatalos
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January 18 2013 23:59 GMT
#1356
I didn't think a SK existed (since there was only one kill N1), but it seems like we got lucky with our lynch. This means we don't have the risk of 2 townies dying / night (although it could have been possible for him to hit Mafia as well). I'm also fairly certain he would have killed me tonight otherwise - he was so convinced of me being blue.

That brings with it another problem though. Scum might agree with his assessment and shoot me tonight. That's why I'm posting the best course of action for tomorrow before I'm (possibly) shot.

What are the goals for Mafia?

As far as I can see it, there are three goals that Mafia are naturally pushing in this game:

1) Silence (lurking, discouraging discussion, denying information)
2) Chaos (casting suspicion at a wide pool of suspects, keeping the thread unorganized, manipulating the discussion/vote)
3) Survival (staying off the radar, not being at the center of attention)

Of course Mafia can try appearing more townish, but pushing their agenda is natural for them. It's really hard to avoid at least subconsciously going against the town's good. And in the end, why *would* Mafia do more than necessary (to avoid being lynched) to aid town?

Who are pushing these goals?

I had WBG as my #1 scumread at the end of N1, but actually I think he's town after all. Looking at the events of D2, he did basically nothing to further Mafia's goals. He had a surge of activity during D2 and engaged in various discussions, increasing the thread's activity as a whole. He actively tried to keep the thread organized and focused on two lynch candidates (Sloosh/Hopeless) to gain more information from the lynch and to make it harder for Mafia to manipulate the vote. He absolutely didn't stay off the radar - and was even the center of attention for most of the day.

Jay also had a somewhat similar surge of activity during D2. I'm starting to think he might be just a townie who got off to a bad start after all. His behaviour is certainly among the towniest for D2.

If not them, then who?

Notable is that during D2 a lot of players were lurking / sheeping / staying off the radar (MrZentor, grush, Hopeless, Lazermonkey). I'm pretty certain that there are at least 2 Mafia in this group.

MrZentor - his early game suggested him being town based on meta, but I'm extremely uncomfortable with his apathy, lurking and sheeping for N1+D2+N2. It's actually starting to look like his scum meta at this point. If this keeps up, he's likely Mafia.

Lazermonkey - I don't still think he's scum. Kush appeared very townie to me and although Lazermonkey has made some bad plays, I think he's just confusing things and being unfortunate right now.

grush - totally lurking and sheeping all game. Could be very well scum.

Hopeless - most likely scum. With Sloosh flipping SK, it makes sense for him to be scum as well.

Started writing this a bit too late and running out of time, so here is it. More later if I'm still alive.
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 00:33 GMT
#1362
GG thrawn, I guess this was the better choice for them.

As I was saying, Hopeless has been the most vague and sheepish player in the game, so I'm most confident in him flipping Mafia right now. I originally thought that the situation between Hopeless and Sloosh was scum + town, but with Sloosh flipping SK it's starting to look like scum + SK. Scum + scum would have made no sense - I can't fathom Mafia failing so miserably in manipulating the votes. But scum + SK makes very much sense, especially considering how close the votes got between them and how ultimately the scum got away (with the help of his team of course).

##Vote Hopeless1der

Also, I got roleblocked (must be for the final words of Sloosh....).
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 00:38 GMT
#1365
MrZentor, you REALLY need to start benefiting town if you in fact are town. Your behaviour after D1 is starting to look like your scum meta - and I'm starting to suspect that you just put your best effort into appearing like your town meta during D1, but couldn't keep it up anymore. It's really scummy how your activity and contributions have dropped dramatically after the beginning.
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 00:39 GMT
#1367
Waaat? Please post your logs, right now.
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 00:40 GMT
#1369
On January 19 2013 09:39 MrZentor wrote:
You got me, Xata, I'm scum.


I mean seriously, there's NO reason not to post your logs.
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 00:44 GMT
#1374
I know that, it would be a suicide to fakeclaim now. I posted that pressure for MrZentor almost at the same time as he claimed Mason. But regardless of that, it's beyond stupid to deny useful information even if you are town.
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 00:52 GMT
#1378
On January 19 2013 09:43 Hopeless1der wrote:
I'm confirmation biased, and have yet to properly make a case, so feel free to call this OMGUS until I substantiate:

##Vote: Hapahauli


Still willing to lynch Lazer.


WTF? That's pretty much the scummiest post so far. You just counter-voted your voter without any reason other than "I'm going to make up reasons in the future". Even then you're diminishing your own vote by offering to lynch another player instead....
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 00:57 GMT
#1382
On January 19 2013 09:49 Hopeless1der wrote:
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On January 19 2013 09:44 Xatalos wrote:
I know that, it would be a suicide to fakeclaim now. I posted that pressure for MrZentor almost at the same time as he claimed Mason. But regardless of that, it's beyond stupid to deny useful information even if you are town.

Your post is stamped 2 minutes after Zentor's and reads as a direct response to his claim, in which you suggest he may not actually be town. Also, define useful. Scattered information doesn't do anything by itself, there needs to be a reason. What do you expect is in the logs? He needs to post the logs before he dies, but I don't think we need his logs ASAP.


I started writing that before MrZentor had posted anything.... And it was like a 1 minute difference between posts. Anyway, that's a stupid thing to argue about. Why would we not want any additional information we can get? MrZentor is already confirmed, yeah, so it's not to determine his alignment, but it might reveal some new perspective or observation about other players that hasn't been said before. And it's also 100% confirmed to be genuine analysis.
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January 19 2013 01:02 GMT
#1383
On January 19 2013 09:53 Hopeless1der wrote:
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On January 19 2013 09:52 Xatalos wrote:
On January 19 2013 09:43 Hopeless1der wrote:
I'm confirmation biased, and have yet to properly make a case, so feel free to call this OMGUS until I substantiate:

##Vote: Hapahauli


Still willing to lynch Lazer.


WTF? That's pretty much the scummiest post so far. You just counter-voted your voter without any reason other than "I'm going to make up reasons in the future". Even then you're diminishing your own vote by offering to lynch another player instead....

Scumteam:
Hapahauli
Xatalos
Lazermonkey


That's probably the most useless suspicion list I have ever seen. Not to mention that it's based on OMGUS rather than your reads.
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 01:15 GMT
#1384
Anyways, I'm going to sleep now. It's pretty obvious that Hopeless is scum at this point, but the real task is to determine the remaining ones. MrZentor is confirmed, WBG and Jay had a surge of activity during D2 while most players sinked to lurking... I'm starting to feel like the last 2 are grush + Hapa/iamperfection/Lazermonkey. I really doubt we're going to lynch anyone but Hopeless today so the best use for today would be to discuss the remaining scum and maybe even connections with Hopeless (although I'm usually against that).
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 12:11 GMT
#1403



On January 19 2013 11:54 grush57 wrote:
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On January 19 2013 10:27 iamperfection wrote:
im pretty sure hapa isnt scum at this point. I thought there was a possibility of him being sk but with that eliminated i think it is likely that he is town.

## Vote hopeless


You can die hopeless you are making no sense because you are scum.


this guy is scum.
Also because hopeless is too...

##Vote: Hopeless1dr


Care to explain?

I'm actually starting to suspect that Hapa or iamperfection is scum this game.

- Hapa has been unusually inactive / slightly lurky and almost only focused on Prom -> Hopeless so far, not doing much else really - usually he's been the leading force for town in pushing the discussion and scumhunting + analysis
- iamperfection has been mostly asking questions, posting one-liners and sheeping votes so far - granted that his play in LVIII looks similar on the surface (and he was town.....)
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 19 2013 12:20 GMT
#1404
Although it feels ridiculous for Hapa to start bussing Hopeless so early...

In any case, I'm starting to think that grush is scum. That whole "starsenses" phrase just feels forced and too stupid to take seriously. The way he's repeating it so much also feels like he's using it as some sort of a "shield". He also has done absolutely nothing to aid in scumhunting and has basically just hidden behind general inactivity and the thread having bigger issues to worry about.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 19 2013 12:38 GMT
#1405
Where is everyone

Hopeless has basically defaulted to voting Lazermonkey in several situations, so if Hopeless flips scum, I'm having a hard time believing that Lazermonkey is also scum. This is of course in addition to Kush behaving suicidally for a scum player during D1 and Lazermonkey remaining calm under intense pressuring.

If Hopeless happens to flip town, I have to say that Lazermonkey and Hapa look worse. Hapa has basically tunneled Hopeless for days and hasn't done that much else, while Lazermonkey has been tunneled by Hopeless for days. I'm also wondering about this post (latest post from Lazermonkey...):

On January 19 2013 02:14 Lazermonkey wrote:
Nothing happening atm : (. I'm going to the cinema + food for a few hours. Should be back before deadline tho.


Lazermonkey, with this and your earlier post saying you're "not posting because you're not in danger of getting lynched", it looks like you're seriously actively lurking. Please, step up your activity and play the game. You're definitely in big danger of getting lynched tomorrow especially if you continue with this apathy.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 19 2013 19:14 GMT
#1423
Why am I scum btw, Hopeless? I don't see where you explained that. Just process of elimination? And grush, I really want to hear why iamperfection is scum... You just throwed that thought out there without any reason.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 19 2013 19:23 GMT
#1431
On January 20 2013 04:19 iamperfection wrote:
Xaltos isn't scum either by the way unless he was extremely clever around the time mr zenter claimed mason.


What do you mean with that by the way?
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 19:26 GMT
#1432
On January 20 2013 04:17 Hopeless1der wrote:
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On January 20 2013 04:14 Xatalos wrote:
Why am I scum btw, Hopeless? I don't see where you explained that. Just process of elimination? And grush, I really want to hear why iamperfection is scum... You just throwed that thought out there without any reason.

No, I havent explained why, it was by elimination and its a very weak and situational read. That's why I haven't been advocating a switch onto you, only onto Lazer. You're still a scumread, but not one I'm comfortable pushing at the moment.


Hm... There still has to be some reason besides just elimination. Or am I just the "least town" of the remaining players? What is the reason?
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 19:30 GMT
#1435
On January 20 2013 04:26 iamperfection wrote:
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On January 20 2013 04:23 Xatalos wrote:
On January 20 2013 04:19 iamperfection wrote:
Xaltos isn't scum either by the way unless he was extremely clever around the time mr zenter claimed mason.


What do you mean with that by the way?

Its tough from my phone but I believe you somewhat doubted the claim and then asked for logs. As scum you would have known mr z was town.


Actually I posted that pressure for MrZentor almost at the same time as he claimed Mason. Then I asked for logs after that. I didn't actually doubt his Mason claim (it would have been suicide to fakeclaim there) but I first pressured him and after seeing his claim, asked for logs. He still hasn't given them though.
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 19:37 GMT
#1439
On January 20 2013 04:31 Hopeless1der wrote:
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On January 20 2013 04:26 Xatalos wrote:
On January 20 2013 04:17 Hopeless1der wrote:
On January 20 2013 04:14 Xatalos wrote:
Why am I scum btw, Hopeless? I don't see where you explained that. Just process of elimination? And grush, I really want to hear why iamperfection is scum... You just throwed that thought out there without any reason.

No, I havent explained why, it was by elimination and its a very weak and situational read. That's why I haven't been advocating a switch onto you, only onto Lazer. You're still a scumread, but not one I'm comfortable pushing at the moment.


Hm... There still has to be some reason besides just elimination. Or am I just the "least town" of the remaining players? What is the reason?

Yeah, I read grush bugs and lamp as town. Zentor is "confirmed". Between you and Jay, I think you are scummier. No, I have not explained why, and I'm not going to while Hapa and LM are still on the table. There's no benefit to being scatterbrained when I'm about to die, let me focus on the scumreads I'm confident in so I can actually convince people my reads are shit, either before or after the lynch.


It's useless to hide your reads though since if/when you get lynched, you can't post them anymore. And posting now will be a lot more useful than right before your lynch - we can also confirm that you have those reads and you're not just going to die silently after all.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 19 2013 21:43 GMT
#1452
Now martyring.... I don't think any sane town would hide most of their reads and then stop posting like that. This only kills discussion and makes this day less useful. As town, he would at least try to make this day more useful. Clearly that's not the case here.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 19 2013 21:45 GMT
#1453
On January 20 2013 06:29 wherebugsgo wrote:
BTW I mentioned a town RB targeting Xata/Hapa being dumb but a JK on those same targets would not be, so my previous assessment didn't mention that. Because of that we can't really tell too much from the RB claims IMO.



Oh yeah, that's certainly possible.
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Xatalos
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January 19 2013 21:49 GMT
#1454
I think WBG's whole attitude to the D2 lynch was townish and it's one of the biggest reasons I now think he's town. He certainly did some scummy things during D1 but his efforts during D2 more than make up for it. It's especially stupid to think he's scum based on how he acted during D2. He was basically leading the discussion and organizing the lynch to give maximum information.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 20 2013 10:50 GMT
#1482
It's really saddening how lurky this game is. Several players (grush, MrZentor) have literally done nothing all game... And most players are posting less and less frequently. Although I guess it also has something to do with how unanimous (=boring) today's vote is.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 20 2013 10:51 GMT
#1483
Oh wait, MrZentor *did* actually play during D1, but not after that :/
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 20 2013 10:57 GMT
#1484
On January 20 2013 09:44 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 20 2013 06:15 wherebugsgo wrote:
I can't tell whether Lazer being dumb is him being scum or not.

Anyway some of my reasons to switch votes were lazy or waffly (or deceptive even) but I did want both slOosh and Hopeless to stay relevant lynches. I could have said nothing at all and I would have done the vote switches anyway.

That's why, for example, my vote was on Hopeless for the majority of the time. He was consistently behind in votes. If I swapped over to slOosh at a bad time then it would make a Hopeless lynch less likely, because a net 2 vote switch is likely to scare off all the noobs into making real stances.

If you're town and can't understand why I would want a close lynch, and why I would be interested in forcing scum to take sides like that, then I'd suggest you reread Ver's town guide.


So, how am I being dumb if your reason for voting someone is deceptive(even from your own PoV)?

I can buy that you wanted to hold the voting close. But that isn't a very relevant part of the case anyway. For example, it doesn't explain the fact that you first say that hopeless looks much better after his post + the fact that he played similar to this last game as town and then moments later say that he is just as scummy SlOosh. It also doesn't explain the fact that you didn't push Hopeless at all during the day, while you were pushing SlOosh like no tomorrow.


This is pretty much based on WBG trying to save his scumbuddy Hopeless, I guess. If Hopeless flips town, is WBG still scum in your mind? What makes WBG scum outside of this connection?
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Xatalos
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January 20 2013 11:01 GMT
#1485
On January 20 2013 13:19 grush57 wrote:
Seeing hopeless' flip makes or breaks the reads bro.


Who is scum if Hopeless flips scum? What if he flips town? This is just a complete waste of time holding reads until N3.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 20 2013 11:05 GMT
#1486
On January 20 2013 09:47 Lazermonkey wrote:
Jay: If Hopeless is scum, I think it is perfectly possible that they would just buss him, given the situation he is in.


Yeah, there's no way scum would reveal themselves by resisting a lynch with such huge support. I would bus really hard right now in their shoes. It's a lost cause even attempting to save Hopeless at this point.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 20 2013 12:00 GMT
#1489
On January 20 2013 20:33 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 20 2013 19:57 Xatalos wrote:
On January 20 2013 09:44 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 20 2013 06:15 wherebugsgo wrote:
I can't tell whether Lazer being dumb is him being scum or not.

Anyway some of my reasons to switch votes were lazy or waffly (or deceptive even) but I did want both slOosh and Hopeless to stay relevant lynches. I could have said nothing at all and I would have done the vote switches anyway.

That's why, for example, my vote was on Hopeless for the majority of the time. He was consistently behind in votes. If I swapped over to slOosh at a bad time then it would make a Hopeless lynch less likely, because a net 2 vote switch is likely to scare off all the noobs into making real stances.

If you're town and can't understand why I would want a close lynch, and why I would be interested in forcing scum to take sides like that, then I'd suggest you reread Ver's town guide.


So, how am I being dumb if your reason for voting someone is deceptive(even from your own PoV)?

I can buy that you wanted to hold the voting close. But that isn't a very relevant part of the case anyway. For example, it doesn't explain the fact that you first say that hopeless looks much better after his post + the fact that he played similar to this last game as town and then moments later say that he is just as scummy SlOosh. It also doesn't explain the fact that you didn't push Hopeless at all during the day, while you were pushing SlOosh like no tomorrow.


This is pretty much based on WBG trying to save his scumbuddy Hopeless, I guess. If Hopeless flips town, is WBG still scum in your mind? What makes WBG scum outside of this connection?
Hopeless flipping scum would obviously make WBG look much worse. But even then, it doesn't actually explain some stuff. WBG doesn't actually PUSH Hopeless at all. Just look at his filter. He is only pushing SLOosh. Even when voting Hopeless, he is pushing SlOosh. He dissmisses all my accusations with that he wanted to keep the voting close. I do agree with that keeping the voting close is a nice thing to do as town, however its not a very relevant part of my case at all. I'm not pushing him for the fact THAT he swapped his vote, but rather how he did it.

Now, ask youself this. Almost ALL day, SlOosh was leading in votes. If WBG really did want to keep the voting close and were fine with both Hopeless and SlOosh lynches, why did he push SlOosh and not Hopeless?

Also, Look at SlOosh last analytical post, he has some good points on WBG as well. WBG is scum for me no matter what Hopeless flips.


It made me suspicious of WBG earlier how he had called almost everyone scum at some point, but mostly just posted lists with 3-5 scum suspects (being fine with lynching any of them). That was a really vague and scummy way to approach the lynches. Your point about him pushing Sloosh and not focusing on Hopeless is actually more townish in itself than being vague and open about the choice. Of course it can be considered as helping his scumbuddy, although that's pretty blatant and risky as well. All in all I'd say that Hopeless flipping scum makes WBG look a bit worse, but not scummy enough to be lynch-worthy considering his overall behaviour during D2. He was basically the leading poster and thread pusher for the whole day. It's really hard to imagine for scum to take so much responsibility over the discussion.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 20 2013 12:48 GMT
#1491
On January 20 2013 21:15 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 20 2013 21:00 Xatalos wrote:
On January 20 2013 20:33 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 20 2013 19:57 Xatalos wrote:
On January 20 2013 09:44 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 20 2013 06:15 wherebugsgo wrote:
I can't tell whether Lazer being dumb is him being scum or not.

Anyway some of my reasons to switch votes were lazy or waffly (or deceptive even) but I did want both slOosh and Hopeless to stay relevant lynches. I could have said nothing at all and I would have done the vote switches anyway.

That's why, for example, my vote was on Hopeless for the majority of the time. He was consistently behind in votes. If I swapped over to slOosh at a bad time then it would make a Hopeless lynch less likely, because a net 2 vote switch is likely to scare off all the noobs into making real stances.

If you're town and can't understand why I would want a close lynch, and why I would be interested in forcing scum to take sides like that, then I'd suggest you reread Ver's town guide.


So, how am I being dumb if your reason for voting someone is deceptive(even from your own PoV)?

I can buy that you wanted to hold the voting close. But that isn't a very relevant part of the case anyway. For example, it doesn't explain the fact that you first say that hopeless looks much better after his post + the fact that he played similar to this last game as town and then moments later say that he is just as scummy SlOosh. It also doesn't explain the fact that you didn't push Hopeless at all during the day, while you were pushing SlOosh like no tomorrow.


This is pretty much based on WBG trying to save his scumbuddy Hopeless, I guess. If Hopeless flips town, is WBG still scum in your mind? What makes WBG scum outside of this connection?
Hopeless flipping scum would obviously make WBG look much worse. But even then, it doesn't actually explain some stuff. WBG doesn't actually PUSH Hopeless at all. Just look at his filter. He is only pushing SLOosh. Even when voting Hopeless, he is pushing SlOosh. He dissmisses all my accusations with that he wanted to keep the voting close. I do agree with that keeping the voting close is a nice thing to do as town, however its not a very relevant part of my case at all. I'm not pushing him for the fact THAT he swapped his vote, but rather how he did it.

Now, ask youself this. Almost ALL day, SlOosh was leading in votes. If WBG really did want to keep the voting close and were fine with both Hopeless and SlOosh lynches, why did he push SlOosh and not Hopeless?

Also, Look at SlOosh last analytical post, he has some good points on WBG as well. WBG is scum for me no matter what Hopeless flips.


It made me suspicious of WBG earlier how he had called almost everyone scum at some point, but mostly just posted lists with 3-5 scum suspects (being fine with lynching any of them). That was a really vague and scummy way to approach the lynches. Your point about him pushing Sloosh and not focusing on Hopeless is actually more townish in itself than being vague and open about the choice. Of course it can be considered as helping his scumbuddy, although that's pretty blatant and risky as well. All in all I'd say that Hopeless flipping scum makes WBG look a bit worse, but not scummy enough to be lynch-worthy considering his overall behaviour during D2. He was basically the leading poster and thread pusher for the whole day. It's really hard to imagine for scum to take so much responsibility over the discussion.
Do explain!


If we assume that WBG is town (so he has no information about the alignments of Sloosh or Hopeless), it feels natural to push one of the main lynch candidates over the other one. It would in fact feel unnatural to just be indifferent about which one of them gets lynched as town.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 20 2013 14:57 GMT
#1494
On January 20 2013 22:07 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 20 2013 21:48 Xatalos wrote:
On January 20 2013 21:15 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 20 2013 21:00 Xatalos wrote:
On January 20 2013 20:33 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 20 2013 19:57 Xatalos wrote:
On January 20 2013 09:44 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 20 2013 06:15 wherebugsgo wrote:
I can't tell whether Lazer being dumb is him being scum or not.

Anyway some of my reasons to switch votes were lazy or waffly (or deceptive even) but I did want both slOosh and Hopeless to stay relevant lynches. I could have said nothing at all and I would have done the vote switches anyway.

That's why, for example, my vote was on Hopeless for the majority of the time. He was consistently behind in votes. If I swapped over to slOosh at a bad time then it would make a Hopeless lynch less likely, because a net 2 vote switch is likely to scare off all the noobs into making real stances.

If you're town and can't understand why I would want a close lynch, and why I would be interested in forcing scum to take sides like that, then I'd suggest you reread Ver's town guide.


So, how am I being dumb if your reason for voting someone is deceptive(even from your own PoV)?

I can buy that you wanted to hold the voting close. But that isn't a very relevant part of the case anyway. For example, it doesn't explain the fact that you first say that hopeless looks much better after his post + the fact that he played similar to this last game as town and then moments later say that he is just as scummy SlOosh. It also doesn't explain the fact that you didn't push Hopeless at all during the day, while you were pushing SlOosh like no tomorrow.


This is pretty much based on WBG trying to save his scumbuddy Hopeless, I guess. If Hopeless flips town, is WBG still scum in your mind? What makes WBG scum outside of this connection?
Hopeless flipping scum would obviously make WBG look much worse. But even then, it doesn't actually explain some stuff. WBG doesn't actually PUSH Hopeless at all. Just look at his filter. He is only pushing SLOosh. Even when voting Hopeless, he is pushing SlOosh. He dissmisses all my accusations with that he wanted to keep the voting close. I do agree with that keeping the voting close is a nice thing to do as town, however its not a very relevant part of my case at all. I'm not pushing him for the fact THAT he swapped his vote, but rather how he did it.

Now, ask youself this. Almost ALL day, SlOosh was leading in votes. If WBG really did want to keep the voting close and were fine with both Hopeless and SlOosh lynches, why did he push SlOosh and not Hopeless?

Also, Look at SlOosh last analytical post, he has some good points on WBG as well. WBG is scum for me no matter what Hopeless flips.


It made me suspicious of WBG earlier how he had called almost everyone scum at some point, but mostly just posted lists with 3-5 scum suspects (being fine with lynching any of them). That was a really vague and scummy way to approach the lynches. Your point about him pushing Sloosh and not focusing on Hopeless is actually more townish in itself than being vague and open about the choice. Of course it can be considered as helping his scumbuddy, although that's pretty blatant and risky as well. All in all I'd say that Hopeless flipping scum makes WBG look a bit worse, but not scummy enough to be lynch-worthy considering his overall behaviour during D2. He was basically the leading poster and thread pusher for the whole day. It's really hard to imagine for scum to take so much responsibility over the discussion.
Do explain!


If we assume that WBG is town (so he has no information about the alignments of Sloosh or Hopeless), it feels natural to push one of the main lynch candidates over the other one. It would in fact feel unnatural to just be indifferent about which one of them gets lynched as town.
Then don't you think its strange that WBG is trying to get cred because he tried hard to make the lynch as close as possible while he was actually pushing towards the opposite?

He did state quite explicit that he HAD them both down as scum and that he did in fact feel indifferent about who to lynch. Yet he chose only to push SlOosh even tho Hopeless was behind in votes almost all day.


Well, the end result WAS close. With Hapa pushing Hopeless so hard, I can see it being more useful to push Sloosh, even if it made no big difference to him personally. I'm just trying to see the town logic here, and I think it's more likely than openly helping out his scumbuddy. Although that's a possible scenario, but it depends completely on Hopeless flipping scum, and even then it means WBG was playing very greedily by openly saving his scumbuddy.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 20 2013 22:52 GMT
#1551
Well, I'm not moving my vote away from Hopeless. Looks like many were moved by his case against Lazermonkey, but it's mostly just repeating dead townies' posts and WIFOMing. Not actually pointing out something genuinely new or worthwhile. I have to admit that Hopeless didn't just give up and die, which would have been the most scummy way to react, but his current actions aren't that much better.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 20 2013 22:58 GMT
#1554
Btw MrZentor, don't you have absolutely anything to say? You're the only confirmed town here so you could easily push the discussion but you aren't even posting for a long time.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 20 2013 23:03 GMT
#1555
On January 21 2013 07:52 Hopeless1der wrote:
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On January 21 2013 07:50 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 21 2013 07:43 Hopeless1der wrote:
On January 21 2013 07:37 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 21 2013 07:31 Hopeless1der wrote:
On January 21 2013 07:24 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 21 2013 07:20 Hopeless1der wrote:
On January 21 2013 07:12 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 21 2013 07:07 Hopeless1der wrote:
Yeah I thought so bugs. Xata or jay, your assistance would be greatly appreciated in the kill lazermonkey endeavor.
Hopeless, you realise that a good move as town would be to actually give YOUR reads on ALL people in this situation?

After the responses I've been getting all game? Nah I'll be indignant and obnoxious thank you. Less rage inducing for me.
Wait, you don't care about the game? But then why take the time to even post this? Why take the time to write a case on both me and Hapa? It doesn't actually matter about what response you will get. Its not only about you avoiding to get lynched anymore but also about you giving town reads we can trust to 100%.

If the town can't figure out my town reads based on my filter when I flip...I just... I don't even. I'm not kind of scummy on you and hapa, you're strong reads, so giving town reads on the rest of the player base is redundant
Some of your town reads are from daaays ago. And for some of them you don't even give any reasoning what so ever. That isn't very helpfull at all. Do you think you are helping town by just sitting here doing jack shit instead?

Please look at the way Lazer is pushing me here. There are a finite number of scum in the game. I STRONGLY believe I've pegged two. At most I've missed one. Lazer's accusations suggest I need to give extensive town reads because they'll be beneficial. Bullshit. My town reads are inherent in the fact that they aren't scumreads. The current "exception" is xata/bugs. I think the scumteam is LM Hapa WBG at the moment.
Dude, I'm not even pushing you any longer. I am saying that it is insanely likely that you will die in about one hour and IF you for some reason actually is town instead of scum, the good news for us is that we know everything you have said has been comming from a townie.

If you actually want town to win, you should have realised that by now and start to read filters in order to give out as good reads of every player in the game as you possibly can. You haven't lost the game just because you got lynched and helping us by giving out reads to the best of your ability should be your priority 1 right now.

But owell, If you dont feel like giving out reads, it means you are most likely scum anyways. And I don't feel like arguing with scum about stuff like this.

Its LYLO tomorrow. Town reads are meaningless.


Scumreads are more useful than townreads, but townreads are more useful than no reads at all. Surely you could understand this if you were town.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 20 2013 23:29 GMT
#1560
On January 21 2013 07:36 grush57 wrote:
hapa, seriosuly u literally did nothing this whole game, and notice how he doesn't refute it he just edits my post pulling the ol' scum strawman argument. You are absolutely nothing alike in your town games.
##Unvote
##Vote: HapaHauli


So your current scumteam is Hapa, Lazermonkey, iamperfection? At least that's what I managed to translate from your filter. Your filter has very little reasoning though and absolutely nothing about why iamperfection is scum.

With that said, I don't like Hapa's play in this game either. He's barely even mentioned anyone but Hopeless since D1... I don't see both Hopeless and Hapa being scum though. If Hopeless happens to flip town, Hapa's scumminess level will rise significantly at the same time.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 20 2013 23:48 GMT
#1566
On January 21 2013 08:34 Hopeless1der wrote:
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On January 21 2013 08:03 Xatalos wrote:
Scumreads are more useful than townreads, but townreads are more useful than no reads at all. Surely you could understand this if you were town.


ORLY? It sure doesn't seem that way. SS had me as town, see his last list post:

+ Show Spoiler +
On January 15 2013 01:10 supersoft wrote:
scumlist scumminess from bottom to top. The higher the townier:

supersoft

thrawn2112
- refused to say he's town
"yes, i wonder this as well" lol. yeah sure. i dont buy it.
"it'd be fun to be a scumteam again, skyping was more fun than posting in the real thread in that game" - pointless -
"no/yes of course, duh"
-votes sloosh
good case on sloosh. +
catches wbgs bad case +
keeps up agressive scumhunting. +

Hapahauli
spammer townie ++
still annoys me with his pointless question about that possible scumslip of zentor. GOTTA READ MORE OF THIS GUY, FLYING UNDER MY RADAR

Hopeless1der §
I am town. + excuse -
First, I'm no longer convinced of my scumread, but here's my explanation for my reasoning +
SS should not have been able to retroactively apply Prom's post to wbg's "scum"read. - that doesnt matter at all, i wanted to give my current thoughts, and not something old. Good catch doesnt mean wbg catched him, it means in general a good catch right now in this particualr moment and not in the past. i didnt want to honor wbg here.
Is also drastically out of place because he's half buddying sloosh while calling him scum and also, Sloosh has never exhibited suspicion towards Zentor, showing SS is not reading the thread. complete meaningless. I just wanted something to talk about with sloosh. My vote never is graved in stone.
= votes me for terrible reasons
okay case against lazer +

MrZentor

"Super, Jay is town. -.-" scumslip ?
is the older cousin. defend is naturally - how does he know he's town, is still the question
says he can read jay because of one post of his --
wrong thought about what scum does and what not.
confuses kush and jay even though jay is his cousin?
makes good jokes and sees that wbg is strange ++

Xatalos
understands me +
actively defending himself +

grush57
I am town. +
"How do you know?
scum with supersoft hmm?" ++
disappeared ----

jaybrundage
zentor says hes town +

Ruuch
newbie
missing -

wherebugsgo
talks to me -/+
decent list +
bad case
terrible scumreads, abandoned prom?! Why on earth
doesnt defend me, even though talks to me all the time.
defends me finally, cares to explain some things ++ as scum he should have lynched me. Probably too risky after zentor thrawn and hapa defended me?
_________________________________________ no lynch d1

i am really undecided yet. I dont like the X-case - really hard to place him in my list.

slOosh

calls my stuff BS, hides behind common opinions --
bad case on easy xatalos -
really bad reasoning accusing me ---
votes prom !!!
reasonable second appearance ++
_________________________________________ no lynch d1

Promethelax §§
pointless questions, didnt read --
terrible case on me, defending his scumbuddy sloosh
case contains one quote of myself. extremely fake or extremely terrible.
Either stupid as shit or scum.
Ay did get his facts about me straight. Actually really read my meta ++
Votes Lazer

Kushm4sta now Lazermonkey §§§
pissed because the host said he'd modkill him if he goes retard. ++
buddys me -
funny guy though +
___________________________

after the replacement absolutely ridiculous case against me ------------
He was also wrong about me last game. completely different playstyle compared to his townstyle.
useless vote on Jay for bad reasons, i share hopeless opinion here.



## unvote


right now i am really undecided. just wanted to leave you my updated list here. I won't be able to check the thread for a couple of hours



Prom had me as annoying and trolly but consistent with my town meta
+ Show Spoiler +
On January 15 2013 06:15 Promethelax wrote:
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On January 15 2013 05:37 wherebugsgo wrote:
yo hapa, can you give me a list of past games of yours I can read?

Also I just noticed you went to school in MI :p cool, I'm a MI native haha.


He was scum in LC and Mario mini. Town recently in WC and British.

Thrawn. I came into the thread late because of work, I posted a bad post because I felt I had to post and get into the thread. It was dumb. I don't think I am a victim. I didn't want to push the SS wagon hard anymore as I had a scummier scum read, I knew that the wagon would fall apart without me (have you ever seen Hopeless push a wagon well? Or scum Lazer?).

I seriously don't understand people who sheep me. Which is why I questioned it. Last game I had you down as somewhat scummy and you kept not presenting the reasons for my play being 'anti-town' this game you just called be scum but without evidence. I can't refute you calling me scum. Now that you have some reasons I can refute those. They are wrong. My first post was bad but nothing I have done is scummy. I changed my mind on SS and Xat because I looked them over more. Sorry.

I'm out for the night for real for real this time. I'm going to read dump since you guys might lynch me and I'd like to be somewhat useful to town before I go.

Town:
SloOsh: early interactions with Bugs and the casual tones in This post
Hopeless: too trolly early on for scum hopeless, I don't like his play but it seems consistent with his town play.
Grush: STARSENSES

Do not lynch yet:
Thrawn I had him down as town earlier, he was trying to figure things out. This shitty case on me needs to be looked at again though.
Hapa: not enough from Hapa yet for me to call him scum. My gut says scum but I don't have any reason to believe it.

Null:
MrZ and Jay (I really just ignore them until later) Bugs (me no able to read him)

Would lynch:
Xat
Ruuch
SS

Scum:
LM



Thrawn was not willing to support my wagon:
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On January 18 2013 07:26 thrawn2112 wrote:
On January 18 2013 07:11 Xatalos wrote:
But talking about Lazermonkey is pretty much off-topic right now. thrawn, why not Hopeless?


few things about hopeless that make me not want to vote for him:

his exchange with hapa about why either of them voted for ruuch.

hopeless was making much more sense, and actually made me more suspicious of hapa. hapa was the one who abandoned his scumread (prom) to vote for ruuch. hopeless was voting for ruuch because ruuch wasn't prom, who hopeless had made it clear he didn't want to get lynch. yet hapa is calling out hopeless for what reason?

also the hopeless wagon was/is scummy as hell. first there was wbg+sloosh calling each other scum, then all the sudden there are 4 votes for hopeless including wbg and sloosh. there is no way I'm getting on that wagon.

Also, he seems to remember this being representative of my town play:
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On January 18 2013 07:39 thrawn2112 wrote:
my memories of playing with town hopeless is that I yell at him a lot for not scumhunting.

imo LM is such obvious scum, idk how people aren't voting for him. Prom was lynched instead of Lazer (i'm not counting any votes that happened after ruuch's entrance) and LM had 2 confirmed town (sloosh and prom) voting for him. lets lynch LM please





But Hey, you want townreads, because you've made such superior use of them so far, right?


Scumreads and townreads of dead players are only a small part of the big picture. You should understand, as town, that they can't be the main driving force in lynches, but they can still be helpful. Why don't you just do something that's pretty much certainly helpful for town and at worst has a neutral outcome? Unless it might give away something about your teammates of course.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 21 2013 00:10 GMT
#1583
Okay...... So that means I have to rethink reads a bit. I was already considering if Hapa could be scum and Hopeless town. That seems like a plausible explanation now. But that still leaves two. grush? Lazer? iamp? For sure this got harder.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 21 2013 00:11 GMT
#1585
On January 21 2013 09:09 wherebugsgo wrote:
Sorry guys, I failed there. I was too stubborn and didn't go with my doubts.

Good news though is that, though we have to lynch correctly tomorrow, it's actually quite a bit easier now. We basically have a free lynch in grush IMO and Lazer is still quite likely to flip scum too.



Do you mean grush is 100% Mafia or what?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 21 2013 00:25 GMT
#1591
I think I'm going to sleep now and think about the best lynch tomorrow. Btw WBG, I can see your points about grush, but why is iamperfection town and why is Hapa so townish to you?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 21 2013 22:11 GMT
#1625
I have to go sleep now, so unfortunately I can't wait for the deadline. But here are my current reads anyway (although I think most likely WBG or MrZentor is NK'd tonight).

MrZentor is confirmed town, so there's no point to talk about him. I'm fairly certain that WBG is town as well. He's been the most influential and active poster ever since D2, yet he hasn't done anything alarming during this time, which feels like an almost impossible task for Mafia. He's also been constantly pushing town agenda by actively discussing, controlling the voting process and sharing reads. I haven't played with iamperfection before, but his play seems very similar to his earlier town play and he's been reasonably active, so I think he's town for now.

I had to do some re-evaluation after Hopeless flipped town, so I think scum could be among any of these following players, but some are more likely scum than others.

jaybrundage
I didn't like his D1 play at all, but he started to focus on scumhunting during N1 and D2. Then he almost completely stopped posting (apparently internet problems or something), although his rare posts were okayish. I think it's plausible for him to flip scum, but not likely enough to make him a decent lynch.

Lazermonkey
He's been a top suspect for most of the game, but I just couldn't see Kush behaving the way he did as scum. There aren't many choices left anymore, though, so by process of elimination (and lack of anything to really make me think of Lazermonkey as town) Lazermonkey has an okayish chance of flipping scum.

Hapahauli
If we look at just this one game, Hapahauli has played decently: pushed his scumreads, analyzed, posted a fairly good amount of content. But something is wrong. He has posted less and less frequently since the beginning (it's characteristic of scum to degrade in activity over time), led two mislynches (despite being a really good player) and used unusually bad logic (despite him usually having constantly sound logic):

On January 13 2013 12:34 kushm4sta wrote:
hapa you aren't acting townie. You are actively pushing logical falsehoods for some reason and I don't get why. A more spammy version of the dumb or scum conundrum.

I'm just pointing out how your logic is bad. ---->I was useless as scum, i'm useless right now, therefore I must be scum.
Bad reasoning.. one example of many in the thread so far.

@hapa are you saying stupid shit just because you like to talk a lot? why are you using bad logic?


None of these things were present when I played with town Hapa before! There's always the chance that he's just really having a bad game, but with all these combined, it feels like too much of a coincidence. A decent lynch IMO.

grush57
He actually has 5 pages of filter but (almost) nothing valuable in all those posts. Mostly it's just fluff, vague remarks and other unhelpful small talk. He also flip-flops on his reads constantly and almost never gives reasoning for his reads and/or for the changes in them. This is a good example:

On January 19 2013 11:54 grush57 wrote:
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On January 19 2013 10:27 iamperfection wrote:
im pretty sure hapa isnt scum at this point. I thought there was a possibility of him being sk but with that eliminated i think it is likely that he is town.

## Vote hopeless


You can die hopeless you are making no sense because you are scum.


this guy is scum.
Also because hopeless is too...

##Vote: Hopeless1dr


He is confident in Hopeless flipping scum (apparently?). But then:

On January 21 2013 02:54 grush57 wrote:
I'll go for a lazermonkey lynch.

##Unvote
##Vote: lazermonkey

Also Mr. Zentor you are a confirmed town and you are doing absolute jack shit with it.


Jumping off the wagon for some reason (Hopeless' recent surge of activity?) when a good opportunity presents itself. No real reasoning for this HUGE change from clear scum -> don't lynch! Of course he can look better after Hopeless flips town, right?

- - -

Then we have to also consider grush's recent push for Hapa. I think it's weird for him to do that if they're both scum (not impossible but somewhat unlikely), so more likely one of them is scum and one is town. Hapa hasn't played up to his meta, but he has still played much better than pretty much anyone else, so I'd say grush is the safer lynch right now. And *safe* is the keyword at LYLO... There are no second chances anymore.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 05:17 GMT
#1689
Yeah, Hapa almost has to be scum at this point. His lurking has gotten gradually worse over time and he hasn't actually been a real asset for town this game, despite normally being such a good town player.

##Vote Hapahauli
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 05:27 GMT
#1690
Btw, got roleblocked again..
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 06:09 GMT
#1694
Typing on the phone, but yeah, I think it's scum RB. JK would have surely saved the confirmed Mason. There's ofc the matter of Hapa's RB, but I don't think it's impossible to waste that power. It's not like wasting a KP or something that extreme.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 21:23 GMT
#1702
I'm really curious about Hapa's silence. Has he just given up? Or is he really AFK?

If you in fact are town, Hapa, you better post ASAP - this lurking is really hurting the birth of any meaningful discussion. You haven't even updated your reads after Hopeless flipped... And he was almost confirmed scum according to you.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 21:31 GMT
#1703
Lots of RB speculation... My assumption is that the final words of Sloosh made me the target of scum RB. I guess Hapa fakeclaimed being RB'd to gain some towncred (or alternatively scum had some reason to think he's blue). I wouldn't put too much thought into it, though, since it's ultimately all just WIFOM.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 21:54 GMT
#1705
On January 22 2013 14:55 wherebugsgo wrote:
okay so including the RB claim, why would Hapa as scum push Hopeless so hard with not even a shred of a backup plan?

Would a scum really suicidally push a townie that hard? I'm not getting that part at all.

sure, some of his reads look strange in hindsight, after knowing that Hopeless flipped town, but I think you can find town motivation behind most, if not all, of the things that he did. I'm super confused at why a scum, who knows Hopeless is town (and that Hopeless is one of the better players in the game) would just push him so hard for two days straight with not even an ounce of hesitation.

Tunnel-syndrome is almost exclusive to townies. If anyone has seen Hapa play a scum game before in this style I'd love to see it, It is troubling that he didn't do a read-dump and that he's afk now but this is mind boggling to me.


I think Hapa's play has had some similarities with Sloosh, actually. Both attempted to throw suspicion at me initially D1, but it didn't stick, so next they both decided to kill Prom. Then they both started tunneling Hopeless (although Sloosh also had WBG as his target for a while). Scum don't always need to be vague or opportunistic, it's also possible (and not certainly unheard of) to just tunnel some innocent townie. Of course it looks bad when he flips, but at least you're taking stances - and you can't always be correct, right? So no, I don't see Hapa tunneling Hopeless as a reason to think he's not scum. The only thing that could do that is if he finally jumped to the thread and absolutely nailed a scum or something equally townish.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 22:03 GMT
#1707
On January 23 2013 06:57 wherebugsgo wrote:
well he's not back yet and if he doesn't care about the lynch then I'm fine with him dying.

I'm not going to bother defending someone who doesn't even want to defend themselves, so if he's town then the loss is on him.


Yeah, this really sucks if he's town and just lost interest or something :/
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 22:07 GMT
#1708
WBG, do you think that grush is town if Hapa flips scum? It feels pretty drastic to start heavily bussing Hapa during D3 (when he wasn't yet suspected by almost anyone).
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 22:29 GMT
#1710
On January 23 2013 07:10 wherebugsgo wrote:
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On January 23 2013 07:07 Xatalos wrote:
WBG, do you think that grush is town if Hapa flips scum? It feels pretty drastic to start heavily bussing Hapa during D3 (when he wasn't yet suspected by almost anyone).


wait, when was that?

I don't remember grush attacking him like that. I remember him switching off Hopeless and onto Hapa. There is nothing particularly alignment indicative about anything grush has done.

If grush is not scum, then I take it you argue that Lazer + jay are?

Is Lazer 100% scum then?

I don't see grush not being scum, tbh.


Hmm... I guess you have a point. It was just a wasted vote, not at all dangerous to Hapa. And it was all around useless anyway.... So not really telling of his alignment.

If Hapa flips scum (and I pray he does or we're headed to a swift loss) the remaining 2 scum really have to be among grush/Lazer/Jay - I'm not going to vote for you or iamperfection in any case. That means a 2 / 3 chance to hit scum, but it's not a thankful job to figure out the townie among them.

I still feel like Kush was town, so atm it is grush/Jay.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 22 2013 22:29 GMT
#1711
Anyways, good night
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 23 2013 06:28 GMT
#1742
Lol.... Well, at least we're certainly making the correct lynch today.

I'll have to read filters when I get home. I think we're in a pretty good spot right now, but there's still room left for mistake. Tomorrow is still LYLO after all.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 23 2013 19:18 GMT
#1748
On January 23 2013 17:04 wherebugsgo wrote:
I think the votecounts and Hapa's interactions with other players solve the game.

It pretty much has to be lazer + grush I think.

Let's start with the votecounts, starting with day 1.

Day 1:

Xatalos (1): jaybrundage
Promethelax (7): slOosh, thrawn2112, grush57, MrZentor, Xatalos, Ruuch, Supersoft
Lazermonkey (1): Promethelax
Ruuch (4): Lazermonkey, wherebugsgo, Hapahauli, Hopeless1der

Hapa votes Ruuch, which makes it almost impossible for Ruuch to be mafia. It was a latecycle switch and I don't see a scum hapa being willing to switch on his own teammate, since mafia cannot accurately predict what town will do in that type of a situation. Lazer also happened to vote Ruuch. (and yes, my vote is there too)

This makes iamp surely town.

d2 votecount doesn't really mean much, since from a mafia perspective the lynch was between two townies.

d3 we have Hopeless dying and here's where things are interesting.

Hopeless1der (5): Hapahauli, Xatalos, jaybrundage, Lazermonkey, wherebugsgo
Lazermonkey (3): Hopeless1der, MrZentor, iamperfection
Hapahauli (1): grush57

There are three townies on lazer. That means the three scum have to be between grush and everyone on Hopeless.

Grush at some point was on Hopeless, but didn't like the hopeless lynch. Grush is not stupid-he trolls, but he is smart enough to know that voting Hapa randomly in the middle of a divided wagon like that is not going to get hapa lynched. He wasted his vote here. If he had simply placed it on Lazer then lazer would have had 4 votes, meaning that any one townie who switched off Hopeless onto lazer would've killed lazer over hopeless.

Also, it fits with this really weird tendency by scum to stay off the same wagon. I've only once ever seen all the mafia on a team place their votes on the same wagon. It almost never happens, they are generally aware enough to not make that kind of trend pop out even though ultimately no one looks for it that much.

Now, do one thing:

take the word "grush", and open Hapa's filter in a new tab. ctrl-f, paste.

Notice the difference between how Hapa talks about grush and how he talks about pretty much every other player in the game. Notice how he questions people about grush but almost never talks to him, makes a read of his own about him, or in general really takes a stance either way about him.

Note how when he is asked to make reads, he makes a singular, relatively weak post about grush, and then, unlike all of the other players he talks about, chooses to quote himself in order to reiterate what he said previously.

Scum HATE to make opinions on players, especially their own teammates. They'll do a lot of different things to avoid talking about scumbuddies, and avoidance is the keyword when it comes to hapa regarding grush. He also asks several times, with other players, notably myself and Hopeless, why we think grush is scum. He didn't seem to care all that much about us calling other players scum, so why did he care so much about grush despite not really providing a read of his own there?

This is reinforced in the other direction by the incredibly strange stance change that grush took. He was voting Hopeless and then suddenly randomly he simply dumped his vote onto Hapa. It made no sense except as a distance attempt, knowing that Hopeless would flip town.

The second thing I'd like you all to do while the Hapa filter is open, is ctrl-f kush. At some point you will run into the phrase "kush is being kush". This phrase is only used twice by Hapa. Once, saying "grush is being grush", and once, "kush is being kush." Coincidence? I don't think so. Remember, kush got replaced by lazer. I was suspicious of kush d1.

Now, look again at how Hapa interacts with kush. He calls him useless, says he's being scummy, and in general gives vibes that he actually thinks kush is scum when he interacts directly with kush. However, with other players, he refuses to put a read on kush! He refuses to say either way what he thinks of kush.

The last thing to do here is to search lazer, obviously. This is better, but ONLY because Lazer was a replacement. Hapa uses the replacement as an excuse to push off his read of lazer, and he talks about lazer the most but really doesn't ultimately say anything about his alignment if you read carefully.

Sorry for the shitty formatting but I wanted to get this all out before I went to bed.


Yeah, I completely agree about Ruuch/iamperfection. It would have been extremely stupid for Hapa to vote for Ruuch there if Ruuch had been scum - Hapa had no pressure to do so and he could have easily caused Ruuch to get lynched with that unnecessary vote.

I can see how grush's vote for Hapa fits better with distancing than genuine suspicion. It was in every way a wasted vote and, if Lazermonkey is scum, also a good way to help him. At first I thought it made a Hapa/grush scumteam unlikely, but since that sudden push for Hapa didn't actually put him in any danger, distancing is more likely.

Speaking of which, I have a really hard time picking between Lazermonkey and Jay. On the other hand, Kush played in a way that was completely suicidal for scum. But on the other hand, Jay has been pretty active and openly contributing his reads after D1 - even if he is considered a lynchbait. The fact that Lazermonkey has been up for lynch several times and always somehow escaped feels like there could be a scum agenda behind pushing his counter-wagons.

Fortunately we have a claimed scum in thread, so we have a lot of time for deliberation.

grush, speak out on your reads and everything that comes to your mind. Since it's starting to feel like you're the best choice for tomorrow, but there's always the chance that we're on the wrong track.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 24 2013 06:15 GMT
#1836
On January 24 2013 10:30 grush57 wrote:
WBG, you forgot one thing.

STARSENSES!

Also you're over thinking the vote I thought hopeless was dead and wanted to show my vote on Hapa.

And Lazermonkey is lurking so lynch him?


Lurking seems to be the theme of this game :/ Not that I'm innocent myself, since I can post decently only for a small portion of the day outside of weekend.

grush has been much more active lately though. Maybe it's the fear of death, maybe genuine will to figure out the final scums. If grush happened to be town, it's pretty hard to understand him assuring Hopeless' death despite having a townread on him, but it's not impossible that he just played bad (the same argument that can be made for Kush's anti-town play). At least one of grush/Lazer pretty much has to be scum though (even both is possible). Lazermonkey's diminishing activity is definitely worrying and enough to make me consider him as our best choice tomorrow.

I'll be back home before deadline to try and make sense of grush/Lazer/Jay.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 24 2013 22:53 GMT
#1861
On January 25 2013 04:39 Lazermonkey wrote:
Jay

Well, after really analysing his filter, I must say he looks far far worse than grush.

1. His vote on Hopeless.
All of Jay's votes this far has been super funky. But the one who is by far the most funky is his vote on hopeless. + Show Spoiler +
On January 17 2013 11:19 jaybrundage wrote:
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On January 17 2013 10:26 slOosh wrote:
jay, you haven't objectively commented on hopeless. Right now you have him as town because you think I'm scum. That won't do. What about his posts show that he is town?

Independent of you being scum voting for hopeless. I have a null tell/leaning townieon Hopeless. He has done some scummy things earlier on.

However I think more recent his posting has improved like his reasoning for voting for Ruuch when he thought he might be town does make sense. It shows reasoning and his thought process.

SlOosh In the small possibility that you are town. If you could give your reads on everyone and your other scum reads as well, I know that you think Hopeless and WBG are scum is there a third party that appeals to you? We have a whole day left. The more people post and be transparent the better of a chance town has towards winning.

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On January 17 2013 10:26 Hopeless1der wrote:
On January 17 2013 09:51 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 17 2013 09:08 Hopeless1der wrote:
Question the first:
Why did Hapa vote for Ruuch?

Question the second:
Why did I vote for Ruuch?



@Lamp: Do you find my read of you suspicious, based on the posting, and circumstances surrounding the replacement, of Ruuch? By which I mean, do you think it is conceivable that I would arrive at a townread of you based on the limited information available?


Ill answer these. I think both of you voting for Ruunch was stupid. It was a dumb wagon. He is a completely new at this game. Doesn't know what hes doing. His late vote was completely a null tell. He doesnt know whats scummy and whats townie. He has never had experience playing this game before. He probably felt a bit overwhelmed (hence why he later quit.)

So my question to you is why did you vote Ruunch?

Also Ziggler why did you decide to vote SlOosh over say WBG or LM or Hopeless?

I asked the questions in that manner because my reasons were completely different than Hapa's. I was doing what little I could to save Prom, short of blowing up at the thread and calling everyone stupid, which seems to be the go-to response these days. Hapa on the other hand has been touting his scum-Prom read and all of the sudden feels its a good idea to go after Ruuch as a policy lynch. I won't deny it was a stupid wagon, but I felt it was a better to lose him than Prom. I didn't read Ruuch as scum, I read him as expendable, in comparison to Prom. Hapa trying to equate our votes as being equally scummy:
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On January 17 2013 05:27 Hapahauli wrote:
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On January 17 2013 05:17 Lazermonkey wrote:
Bugs, how do you go from:
On January 17 2013 01:42 wherebugsgo wrote:
alright, let's go for it. I actually like Hopeless's thoughts in his last post and Lazer looks much better because he pointed out something that I noticed too; in Hopeless's last game he played somewhat similar to this.

slOosh, on the other hand, is still scum.

##unvote
##vote slOosh
to
On January 17 2013 04:18 wherebugsgo wrote:
alright.

I'm feeling lazy so let's just kill Hopeless. I don't think anything is going to happen in the near future to make either read stronger and so it's just best to consolidate our votes rather than continue to inflate the thread with further pointless back-and-forths.

##unvote
##vote Hopeless1der
In just a couple of hours? And Hopeless didn't even say a thing during this time. Just you talking with Hapa and him calling the thread bad for not wanting to lynch Hopeless.

@Hapa: did you read hopeless filter from LVIII?


Yes I did. However that's only one game out of the multitude of his recent town games in which he played very aggressively.

In addition, I can't rationalize his stance on iamp from a town perspective:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=52#1022

Votes Ruuch, afks for the entire night cycle, comes back and says he thinks iamperfection is town for no reasoning, then proceeds to make arguments against me based on the "assumption" of iamp being town.

Furthermore, he stated that he didn't understand my reasoning for voting Ruuch, which is incredibly scummy considering that he voted Ruuch himself.

is a massive load of bull. I appreciate your efforts to put words in my mouth, like my "implied" super strong town read of Prom, while simultaneously disregarding Question the First.

Furthermore, the "assume you're town" was specifically TO iamperfection because he asked me to explain myself. Are you going to jump down his throat for this post?:
On January 16 2013 06:10 iamperfection wrote:
Do you still mantain he is scum?

If he was scum he would have had access to other players in order to coach him. If you look at his posts he is clearly lost and has no clue what he is doing.

Ill have to go back to the vote swaping when I get home because I now know that people were jumping from town to town.

Or does he get a free pass because he was speaking about himself?


Anyways, it seems I need to look towards self-preservation
##Unvote: Lazermonkey
##Vote: SlOosh




On January 17 2013 10:14 iamperfection wrote:
so what was your reasoning for your town read on me hopeless?

Primarily based on Ruuch's limited interactions with the thread.


@Hapa given what Hopeless said. Why did you vote for Ruunch? If you thought Prom was scum?
On January 18 2013 09:45 jaybrundage wrote:
Given that Sloosh was SK. It makes my read of hopeless off. I assumed that sloosh would flip scum which would make Hopeless more likly to be town. But with Sloosh flipping SK it makes Hopeless seem a lot scummier imo.

Tmw we should lynch hopeless or lynch grush. His pretty useless and hasn't contributed at all. When he does deem to give his reads. He doesn't follow it with any reasoning.

Also Mr.Z i said it before but you gotta step it up. Where is the late game Mr.Z that was promised to me
Just look how he goes from, ''I have a slight town read on Hopeless regardless of SlOosh flipping scum or not'' to ''I think Hopeless is scum because SlOosh flipped SK''. He doesn't actully give out any reasoning for voting Hopeless what so ever. Even better, he doesn't actually push Hopeless at all and before Hopeless is lynched, he asks Hopeless to give out his reads in case he is town (Lol). Instead he goes on to poke a bit on grush for lurking.

2. His interactions with Hapa
self-explanatory + and I did post about this earlier.

3. He doesn't really have any town reads.
Giving out town reads usually isn't alignment indicative. But the way Jay does it, I feel it is. His only real town reads (and by ''real'', I'm excluding stuff like null/slight town shit) were WBG and MrZentor. Both for shit reasons. WBG because he said that it made no sense for both him and SlOosh and WBG to be scum but SlOosh hadn't even flipped at that point. MrZentor because he defended him at the start if D1... I get the impression that he is trying to buddy up with the vets while setting up bandwagons everywhere else.

4. His back and forth with grush
Note that this is actually not that dependant on grush being scum, though it does indeed make him look worse if grush is indeed scum. Basically all game he has got a scum read on grush it seems, yet he doesn't want to vote him nor truly push him. He just keeps on poking him a little bit now and then. Very non-commital. Look at British Empire MM where he had a scum read on Mr.CC and note the big diference compared to this game. In both game he was having a scum read who noone else was really interested in. In British, he kept pushing Mr. CC like a madman. In this game, not so much. Also, why no vote on grush? In British he mentions CC for like the third time ever in the game and BAM, vote right away.+ Show Spoiler +
On January 06 2013 03:32 jaybrundage wrote:
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On January 05 2013 15:37 Hapahauli wrote:
So regarding Jay's stuff on DP... it doesn't look very good. It looks a lot like he's trying to shovel shit on DP.

After Hero Mini, my view on Jay is that he's lynch-bait, so I'm rather hesitant about lynching him. Right now, I'm unsure how likely his behavior is coming from a "town-Jay." His play on it's face is scummy, but I really need to hear more from him.

@ Jay

What do you make of my newly disclosed town-read on DP? Agree or disagree?

Secondly, your quote accusing DP of assuming I was town was very clearly mis-interpreting his actions (in which he very clearly qualified as only IF I was town). It doesn't look very good. Explain yourself.


First off you said you have done this before how many times have you done this tunneling on DP and out of the times you have done it how many times have you been wrong. If you play with DP alot and you can read him consistently then I will reconsider my position.

The reason I find him scummy as been said before. Is his flip flopping on Hapa from hes obv completly with out a doubt scum to i have no fucking idea. It seemed to me like scum backing off of a mislynch they were pushing gone wrong. I personally put alot less faith in reading people's reactions to when they are about to be or going to be lynched.

The quote was me being frustrated with DP's flip flopping he has gone from scum to town to scum now giving someone townie cred for the possibility of one of his scum reads being town. So yes he did change his opinion on hapa again. I didnt say anything wrong.

Also I dont like CC hes doing absolutely nothing this game.

He has made some worthless comments about concentrating on finding scum. He was mentioning the DP-Hapa conversations early one with out giving his opinion on him hasn't commentated much on it when DP was doing some scummy stuff.
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On January 05 2013 11:22 Mr. Cheesecake wrote:


So Xatalos is scummy yo

So now DarthPunk is possibly scum and he provides a quote with a bunch of dem bolded statements to back it up. But didn't Xatalos just say that DP was looking town? That he agreed with a lot of what he had to say? This is a huuuuuge 180 right here. He just felt very comfortable with DP being town. Now he feels uneasy.

Dat 180 on DP. Explain.


He makes a case on Xalatos for making a 180 on DP and calls him scummy for it. However when DP does so many 180s on Hapa hes trying to pull off a 900. CC doesn't give it a second thought although DP is doing the samething as Xalatos CC ignores it. CC has played like he has more knowledge on other townies. He would of known if DP and Hapa were town or not so he played accordingly. Also his lack of anything in his filter is really disconcerting. He has said useless 1 liners. And made a case of 180s that were exactly what DP was doing.

##Unvote
##Vote Mr.CheeseCake
Even now, he hasn't voted grush. He keeps on pushing him like mad, yet he says we should vote for me tomorrow.


A grush+Jay scumteam does in fact make sense. Especially with Jay suspecting grush for the longest time, but still always preferring some other lynch candidate over grush.

The problem I'm having is this: Jay has basically played to his town meta (except his weaker D1 and this later almost-AFK'ing for many days). He's being open, active and pushes his reads. It's in his nature to be a lynchbait (looking scummy at times), but there's nothing that convinces me of him being scum. Even his "funky" vote for Hopeless can be explained by the fact that a Sloosh+Hopeless scumteam was unlikely (thus the slight townread on Hopeless), but with Sloosh flipping SK, it made sense again for Hopeless to be scum (SK+scum being the opposing wagons makes a lot more sense than scum+scum being the opposing wagons).

All in all Jay looks quite townish to me individually. But there aren't too many options left anymore, and with a grush+Jay team looking like a plausible combination, Jay can't be given a free pass - especially now at LYLO.

When thinking about Lazermonkey, I keep coming back to Kush's early posts. Can these really come from scum?

On January 13 2013 09:47 kushm4sta wrote:
fyi i dont read megacases, so keep that in mind.
k this is my last intro post.
Next time I post it will be telling you who i think is scum.


On January 13 2013 12:30 kushm4sta wrote:
i was lying i guess


On January 14 2013 04:01 kushm4sta wrote:
mrz is playing scum how I play scum aka newbish.
he has these amazing town reads
revoting mrz
##unvote
##vote mrz


I even read through the early Witchcraft and Kush definitely didn't play this erratically as scum. He was a bit spammy, yeah, but he was also being polite and trying not to gather negative attention with his posts. He clearly cared about appearing innocent and staying safe. That's not the case at all here. Now Kush just kept saying whatever he wanted and didn't clearly care about looking scummy. If someone can show me wrong, please do, but I just can't see the link between Kush's earlier scum play and this game.

I have a much harder time trying to read Lazermonkey. He does have some pretty scummy posts like this:

On January 18 2013 02:53 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 18 2013 02:50 thrawn2112 wrote:
On January 18 2013 02:46 thrawn2112 wrote:
lol. you really don't have an alternate scumread besides sloosh who you are sheeping wbg on?


to add to this, looking at your filter from n1 it looks like you were most suspicious of wbg

Lazermonkey

-sheeps wbg
-has no scumread beside his sheep vote
-sheeped the person he was most suspicious of
/Facepalm

How does me sheeping SS make me scum, Lol? He is one of the two players in the game who is in fact confirmed town. And I didn't vote SlOosh for the reasons that SS thought made SlOosh scum. I'm purely sheeping WBG.


Or this (lol):

On January 18 2013 02:45 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 18 2013 02:39 thrawn2112 wrote:
On January 18 2013 02:38 Lazermonkey wrote:
Okay, I'm killing SlOosh tonight. WBGs post about the timestamps + how he avoided to vote is convincing enough for me to vote him.

##Vote: SlOosh


who do you think is scum, and who do you want to lynch? pretend the lynch is completely your choice and give me 2 candidates based on your own thoughts.
SlOosh.

I'm not too sure of the next two players as my main scum target died tonight...

However, I'm quite sure the two remaining scum are among

Hapa
grush
Xata
Jay
Iamp
MrZentor.


But then he does have some posts where it looks like he's actually trying to figure out the game:

On January 18 2013 23:54 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 18 2013 06:27 Xatalos wrote:
On January 18 2013 02:25 wherebugsgo wrote:
also xatalos is still abstaining, which is hilarious.

You're not going to lynch me today, or probably ever. Pick between slOosh and Hopeless.


It really seems like Sloosh vs Hopeless at this point, yeah... That wasn't (at least completely) the case before I went to sleep + work, but now it's pretty much a waste to vote anyone else.

Considering Sloosh / Hopeless: I think one of them is likely scum, but it's very unlikely that they are both scum. Sloosh lurked all of N1 and only returned to the thread during D2 after he was pressured to give his opinions... And lately he's just talked about lurkers or how this lynch might affect people's scumreads. Hopeless looks worse though with his self-proclaimed townread on Prom (while at the same time soft pushing him and really not caring about him getting lynched), clear apathy towards scumhunting, switching his reads around very easily depending on the thread, inactivity... The list just goes on and on. Hopeless should be the one to get lynched.

##Unvote wherebugsgo
##Vote Hopeless1der
This is actually quite interesting, Xata realizes that WBG isn't happening and says that both looks scummy but it's unlikely that both are scum. He then chooses to vote Hopeless, even tho my impression from the post is that he just as well could've voted hopeless. I don't think Hopeless and Xatalos are scum together. It makes no sense with the lynch this close to buss.


On January 21 2013 07:18 Lazermonkey wrote:
WBG, how does hopeless flipping scum make grush look bad? O.o

I'd say it makes him look townie, he has been pushing Hopeless since D1 you know..


All in all Kush/Lazermonkey is a real mixture of townish and scummy. I'm having a hard time coming to a conclusion about his alignment, but looking purely at the remaining player pool, I'd say that Lazermonkey makes more sense as scum individually than Jay while making less sense as scum in combination with grush (or they've been bussing each other really hard in recent days).

Then we arrive at grush. The extent of his contributions are alarmingly low throughout the whole game, and mostly he has just (actively?) lurked or posted meaningless filler.

On January 13 2013 14:58 grush57 wrote:
Lynch into hopeless, zentor, xatalos gogogo.


grush is showing a really scummy mindset. He's basing his will to lynch Hopeless on pretty much just OMGUS (earlier Hopeless had accused grush and grush went on the offensive without any real reasoning), MrZentor for no actual reason (except his "stupid and scummy" post formatting earlier I guess) and me for absolutely no reason (just sheeping Sloosh's case on me probably). Yet he's apparently willing to lynch any of us three, without preference. What the heck?

On January 15 2013 05:55 grush57 wrote:
Alright I'll get on the prome train.
Choo Choo!
##Unvote
##Vote: Promethelax


Again he's showing an extreme indifference and sheepish attitude towards lynching scum. If he even intends to find scum at all...

On January 17 2013 06:48 grush57 wrote:
Sorry guys I know I've been afk but I can't help that.
If there's any consolation, i am town because of starsenses.

##Vote: Hopeless1dr


And again just purely sheeping.................

On January 20 2013 13:19 grush57 wrote:
Seeing hopeless' flip makes or breaks the reads bro.


Here he's apparently convinced that lynching Hopeless is the correct choice.

On January 21 2013 02:54 grush57 wrote:
I'll go for a lazermonkey lynch.

##Unvote
##Vote: lazermonkey

Also Mr. Zentor you are a confirmed town and you are doing absolute jack shit with it.


Jumping off the Hopeless train conveniently when he's soon about to flip. Notice that he provides no reasoning for his drastic change of opinion (besides something vague earlier about Hopeless being a worse lynch candidate now due to his recent activity).

On January 21 2013 07:36 grush57 wrote:
hapa, seriosuly u literally did nothing this whole game, and notice how he doesn't refute it he just edits my post pulling the ol' scum strawman argument. You are absolutely nothing alike in your town games.
##Unvote
##Vote: HapaHauli


Lazermonkey might actually get lynched instead of Hopeless at this rate?? Oh wait, I'm going to jump off the wagon again and 100% waste my vote while distancing myself nicely from Hapa at the same time. I can't possibly be held accountable for mislynching a townie (Hopeless) or cause my scumbuddy to be lynched (Lazermonkey) / be held accountable for mislynching a townie (Lazermonkey). I'm also making it look like I and Hapa can't be a scumteam. What could possibly go wrong?

*a lot of random filler and YouTube video clips follow, and then...*


On January 24 2013 06:41 grush57 wrote:
The case on WBG:

His first post with Hapa, so nice with his scumbuddy
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On January 15 2013 05:37 wherebugsgo wrote:
yo hapa, can you give me a list of past games of yours I can read?

Also I just noticed you went to school in MI :p cool, I'm a MI native haha.


Next post with Hapa

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On January 15 2013 06:25 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 15 2013 06:21 Hapahauli wrote:
Damnit SuperSoft, will you answer me?

@ WBG

The Lazer counter-wagon is pretty "resistance-y".

But again, who would be an alternative lynch target? You've pushed Xatalos a lot this game, but that stopped when you sheeped the lazer wagon. I haven't heard much from you at all since in terms of scumreads.


wtf? How is Lazer a counterwagon to Prom when the votes on Lazer CAME FIRST?

Jesus, this is why I call all of you people stupid all the time.

Hey wbg scumbuddy, you've pushed a probably town, but that stopped when you sheeped a wagon that you didn't vote for.No scumreads.
Geez, your stupid, but definitely not scum. Notice How he doesn't actually adress anything in the post that matters, just corrects a little thing.

Here is a post of how constantly throughout the game the scum do a shitty attack against eachother but never a real case
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On January 15 2013 08:50 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 15 2013 08:42 Lazermonkey wrote:
##Vote: WBG

It's never too late...


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On January 15 2013 08:38 wherebugsgo wrote:
Why does prom not care about getting lynched?

This whole thing bothers me

A town is getting lynched, but I;m not gonna bother to save him.

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On January 15 2013 11:19 wherebugsgo wrote:
anyway on a serious note:

the two who escaped lynch yesterday through that prom debacle were Lazer and Xatalos. I am more suspicious of Xatalos, considering that he wasn't around as much during lynch time. He just kinda slinked away, while Lazer at the very least was around and doing stuff. His only contributions really were asking slOosh why his opinion changed on him-very self-centric.

Hapa, thrawn, and slOosh I basically have auto-town reads on. I hope they don't turn into the sciberbias of this game. (I had an auto-town read on Prom too)

Xatalos (1): jaybrundage
Promethelax (7): slOosh, thrawn2112, grush57, MrZentor, Xatalos, Ruuch, Supersoft
Lazermonkey (1): Promethelax
Ruuch (4): Lazermonkey, wherebugsgo, Hapahauli, Hopeless1der

The bolded votes are shady. Ruuch avoided a modkill/replacement by voting right before the deadline. I think that's too close to consider that coincidence. We will have to kill him at some point and there's almost no way scum will shoot him, ever. I suppose we can push him off till later, but I know the game will come down to it at some point.

Jay, don't waste your vote tomorrow if you are town. If I die tonight and jay gets away without contributing much, please someone tunnel the fuck out of him.

Secondly, the late votes on Prom: Ruuch's is the worst. Xatalos's is also pretty bad, considering that I never actually felt that he cared about the lynch. His argument was that he preferred Prom over Lazer. Whatever. Zentor and Grush are basically either trolls or scum, and grush's contributions this game err on the side of scum for me.

In addition to all of these players we have Hopeless, who seems to be feigning reasonability to live. He doesn't seem to be very interested in finding scum, either.

So, we have at least 4-5 players who I would confidently label "antitown" and not all of them can be scum. Wonderful.


Let's look at the bolds first, jay(probably town at this point, me(town), zentor flipped town, xatalos(probably town at this point), and ruuch who is now iamperfection so probably town.
This also shows who voted for ruuch, Happa, Lazer, and WBG. :o I wonder why they wanted the easy mislynch
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On January 15 2013 08:58 wherebugsgo wrote:
If that were anyone else I would call that a scumclaim.

So, let's treat him like anyone else LOL

##unvote
##vote Ruuch

Besides the scummy logic notice the capital LOL
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On January 24 2013 05:49 wherebugsgo wrote:
so you're saying you know who scum will shoot, too?

LOL

WBG was completely wrong on this too.

The only big case he made was on...... the SK! The only time he seemed town was pushing Sloosh because sloosh was acting scummy, but he was sk.
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On January 13 2013 16:03 wherebugsgo wrote:
super, agree/disagree:

three of four

Hopeless
Xatalos
Zentor
Promethelax

Hey I know you're town so I'm going to pull the classic move of making a town make reads for me.
Also
Hopeless - Town
Xatalos - Prolly town
Zentor- Town
Prome- Town


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On January 17 2013 04:18 wherebugsgo wrote:
alright.

I'm feeling lazy so let's just kill Hopeless. I don't think anything is going to happen in the near future to make either read stronger and so it's just best to consolidate our votes rather than continue to inflate the thread with further pointless back-and-forths.

##unvote
##vote Hopeless1der


I am admitting to be lazy scum. Also lets mislynch hopeless.

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On January 18 2013 05:25 wherebugsgo wrote:
I'm inclined to believe LM on his read of Hopeless because I do actually remember him saying that Hopeless played like this last game.

I do also recall that Hopeless played somewhat similarly to this in another game as well, but I'm not quite sure what to think of it, given that I think he was playing like that because of lack of time. He seemed to not be willing to comment on much and he wasn't around at all, but he was town.

LM what do you think of Xatalos attacking me?


...

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On January 18 2013 09:09 wherebugsgo wrote:
you're being lynched cause you're scum.

Deal with it.

I may decide to lynch Mr. Lazerscum instead, but who knows, there's probably about 24 hours before I get shot in the face anyway.



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On January 21 2013 13:18 wherebugsgo wrote:
it's been a long time since scum have shot me as town.

I'm not going to get shot tonight either since Zentor is confirmed town.

Contradicting scum. That was just one post of why it was stupid to think that a vet town wbg would get shot by scum. When not in danger he puts himself townie, but when ind anger changes it up brohan.

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On January 21 2013 05:56 wherebugsgo wrote:
This is actually kind of confusing. If I'm wrong about some of my town reads, it makes Lazer the better lynch by far. Everyone has called both players scum but no one is really willing to defend either of them. On meta they both look bad. They're both easily lynched, though Hopeless seems to be resisting the lynch far more.

Lol there's pros and cons to lynching them both.

Convince me to vote. Most swaying arguments for either side will get my vote. I'll be around till deadline.

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On January 21 2013 06:52 wherebugsgo wrote:
Ok, shit reads = scum.

##vote Hopeless1der


So this was when it was between Hopeless and Lazer. It came down to wbg, and pretended to give a possibility of lynching lazer. In less than an hour he voted Hopeless mislynching him, because he called him scum. OMGUS... Also Lazermonkey just lurked and didn't even try to defend himself but he hopeless has shit reads therefore he is scum?

So basically throughout the game WBG has constantly contradicted himself, threw votes anywhere, put shitty attacks on scummates, always tried to mislynch(except for the sk), and even today he tried to vote me instead of Hapa at first. Strawman arguments, picks out one flaw of an attack and doesn't respond to the actual matter at hands.

I hope you all go throughout his filter aswell and make some reads yourself. I feel like I didn't get everything there was just too much scumminess.



What is this, an actual case and reasoning for someone to be scum??? Nevermind. It's full of WIFOM, totally pointless arguments and very little actual reason. It all feels forced and grasping at straws to throw some dirt at WBG without success. Let's look at some of the (non)arguments being used here:

- Pointing out "capital LOL" as some sort of a scumtell
- Discussing in a friendly way with Hapa being a scumtell (why would scum associate like that openly in the thread?)
- Lazermonkey throwing a vote at WBG makes WBG scum..?
- "The only time he seemed town was when he was pushing Sloosh".... really now? The ONLY time he seemed town? There's no way grush believes this even himself
- WBG being wrong about his early scumreads is a scumtell...
- WBG "contradicting" himself with some comments about being shot at night or not... really? he just says "I haven't been shot as town in a while" and "who knows, I'll probably just be shot tonight", there isn't any contradiction there
- How is it scummy to lynch Hopeless for shitty reads while grush is just avoiding the lynch altogether himself...??

The only point I somewhat agree with is "A town is getting lynched, but I;m not gonna bother to save him." WBG had a really indifferent attitude there to Prom getting lynched. But that's just a small valid point in a sea of far-fetched and baseless accusations.

I feel confident that grush is our correct next lynch, but I'm not sure about Lazer/Jay. I'd really like some input especially on my conflicting read for Kush/Lazermonkey. Especially from iamperfection/WBG, if possible.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 24 2013 22:59 GMT
#1863
On January 25 2013 07:57 iamperfection wrote:
grush should die first imo


Yeah, but what about Kush/Lazermonkey? Do you have any input on my read on him? I'm having a really hard time concluding if he's town or scum atm.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 24 2013 23:06 GMT
#1866
This is Kush's filter from Witchcraft (he was scum): http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=386816&user=200457

Notice the drastic difference from that game to this game. He has a much more serious, cautious and diplomatic attitude to everything. But here... He just didn't seem to care if he appeared scummy or not, doing all kinds of scummy things and otherwise gathering negative attention.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 24 2013 23:17 GMT
#1868
On January 25 2013 08:11 iamperfection wrote:
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On January 25 2013 08:06 Xatalos wrote:
This is Kush's filter from Witchcraft (he was scum): http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=386816&user=200457

Notice the drastic difference from that game to this game. He has a much more serious, cautious and diplomatic attitude to everything. But here... He just didn't seem to care if he appeared scummy or not, doing all kinds of scummy things and otherwise gathering negative attention.

that is correct but he wasnt in this game very long i would put more stock into kush's actions. Plus since lazer is still in the game that is how i would judge it.


You mean put more stock into Lazer's actions? I guess that's fair, since Kush was forced out of the game early D1, but it's hard to shake the initial townread I had on Kush.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 24 2013 23:20 GMT
#1869
At least grush has to be scum at this point, so there's an additional day cycle to figure out the last scum. Now I have to go sleep at last, since I'm up too late as it is. Lynch grush if I happen to be shot.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 05:56 GMT
#1889
Lazermonkey, how did you go from grush as definitely most scummy (even over Hapa) to "feeling townie vibes" just from two one-liner posts where grush seems like giving up? That's a scummy attitude to being in a bad spot, not a townish one. And in any case, I don't understand how two one-liners can change someone's mind after seeing him as the most scummy player based on his earlier filler. This is starting to feel like a desperate last attempt by two cornered scum..... After all, once grush flips scum, Lazermonkey would be in a really hard spot to take the game.

##Vote grush57

And I was roleblocked once more....
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 06:00 GMT
#1890
On January 25 2013 13:27 jaybrundage wrote:
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On January 25 2013 09:02 grush57 wrote:
On January 25 2013 08:50 wherebugsgo wrote:
I don't see how xata can be scum, grush is just flailing at this point

ok def wbg + jay scum team.
##Vote: Jaybrundage

Given Grush and Lazer are coming together to try to lynch make makes it seem a hell of a lot more likely for one of them to be scum.

Similar to how Z-bo and Yamato went for the same mislynch at LYLO in British Mafia.


##Vote LazerMonkey

But at this point I would be willing to lynch either as scum.


WBG whats your thoughts on the grush lazer scum team?

Any preference on who we lynch between the two?


I agree that this is looking similar to the last mislynch attempt by Z-boson/Yamato in British. But why Lazer? They're most likely both scum with this latest development, but grush is still more likely scum.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 06:14 GMT
#1892
On January 25 2013 15:03 wherebugsgo wrote:
rofl I have something funny for you guys.

I'll be completely honest, I saw grush vote at the top of the page and I was like why the fuck is grush voting at night?

I thought my post on the previous post caused the new page to come up, meaning I missed the daypost and Lazer's ninjavote.

LOL.

Anyway, let's kill grush today.

##vote grush57


Any comments about the discussion on Kush/Lazermonkey before the night deadline? I know it seems like Lazermonkey has to be scum now, but I guess it's at least hypothetically possible that grush is bussing Jay... Although really, that's veeeery unlikely.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 06:15 GMT
#1893
Work starting now so can't really discuss though for a while.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 19:02 GMT
#1904
On January 25 2013 17:08 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 25 2013 14:56 Xatalos wrote:
Lazermonkey, how did you go from grush as definitely most scummy (even over Hapa) to "feeling townie vibes" just from two one-liner posts where grush seems like giving up? That's a scummy attitude to being in a bad spot, not a townish one. And in any case, I don't understand how two one-liners can change someone's mind after seeing him as the most scummy player based on his earlier filler. This is starting to feel like a desperate last attempt by two cornered scum..... After all, once grush flips scum, Lazermonkey would be in a really hard spot to take the game.

##Vote grush57

And I was roleblocked once more....
It's only scummy if I would have a really strong scum read on grush. And if you actually did read my filter, I do have a stronger scum read on Jay for the the time being... And if it really is that obvious scummy in your opinion, why do you think I'm even trying to defend grush? Wouldn't it be better if I just bussed him then?


Well, you had a stronger scumread on grush than Hapa yesterday, and now it's apparently gone (or greatly diminished) just because grush posted two posts where he was almost ready to concede. Does that sound like a town or scum mindset to you? And even if he actually *did* something townish now, it's just stupid to abandon everything before it and think he's town based on two posts. Your sudden change of opinion for such a nonexistent reason seems more like you're grush's teammate and going for a final effort before conceding. I at least can't imagine I'd change my mind around like that if I were in your situation as town.

Bussing is a good scum tactic, but not always the best option. The game gets harder for scum as time goes on and if your situation is that bad to begin with, it might be better to risk it than to try delaying for more time. Dunno, that's just WIFOM anyway. What matters is what each player has actually done in this game, not what they might have done instead.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 19:12 GMT
#1905
On January 25 2013 20:31 Lazermonkey wrote:
@Jay's response

1. I don't understand your logic here. Why is SlOosh flipping SK changing your read on Hopeless again?

2. My point still stands.

3. Okay, fair enough.

4. But why do you keep tunneling grush then? You get response that you say is scummy but yet you don't vote him...

Also:
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You forget to mention that the person i tunneled in British MM was a town.
Scum slip? : ) Indicating grush is scum this game.


My read on Hopeless changed as well because he flipped SK instead of scum. It would have been very unlikely that both Sloosh and Hopeless were scum, since they were the two opposing wagons for the day. But since Sloosh flipped SK, it made much more sense for Hopeless to be scum than if Sloosh had flipped scum. What's scummy about this? It's very simple logic. Your logic is what's questionable here for not understanding the basic situation.

Lol, nice catch Surely it's grush+Jay with that, haha... Actually Jay *is* weirdly certain about grush being scum with that wording, but it could be just overconfidence in his read. I'm fairly certain grush is scum too, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that he IS scum.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 19:14 GMT
#1906
Where have the bugs gone :/
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 19:19 GMT
#1909
On January 26 2013 04:17 wherebugsgo wrote:
supposing LM is town and has come to the conclusion that grush + jay are the scum it would make far more sense for his vote to be against grush, rather than with grush.


Yeah, especially because a big part of his case against Jay is based on grush flipping scum...... What's the point of lynching Jay first then?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 19:24 GMT
#1913
And I wonder why Jay has his vote on Lazer too. He's been pushing grush for the longest time but apparently never really wants to lynch him. This points to a grush+Jay team, although it only makes sense to lynch grush first in that case.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 19:47 GMT
#1921
On January 26 2013 04:23 Lazermonkey wrote:
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On January 26 2013 04:02 Xatalos wrote:
On January 25 2013 17:08 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 25 2013 14:56 Xatalos wrote:
Lazermonkey, how did you go from grush as definitely most scummy (even over Hapa) to "feeling townie vibes" just from two one-liner posts where grush seems like giving up? That's a scummy attitude to being in a bad spot, not a townish one. And in any case, I don't understand how two one-liners can change someone's mind after seeing him as the most scummy player based on his earlier filler. This is starting to feel like a desperate last attempt by two cornered scum..... After all, once grush flips scum, Lazermonkey would be in a really hard spot to take the game.

##Vote grush57

And I was roleblocked once more....
It's only scummy if I would have a really strong scum read on grush. And if you actually did read my filter, I do have a stronger scum read on Jay for the the time being... And if it really is that obvious scummy in your opinion, why do you think I'm even trying to defend grush? Wouldn't it be better if I just bussed him then?


Well, you had a stronger scumread on grush than Hapa yesterday, and now it's apparently gone (or greatly diminished) just because grush posted two posts where he was almost ready to concede. Does that sound like a town or scum mindset to you? And even if he actually *did* something townish now, it's just stupid to abandon everything before it and think he's town based on two posts. Your sudden change of opinion for such a nonexistent reason seems more like you're grush's teammate and going for a final effort before conceding. I at least can't imagine I'd change my mind around like that if I were in your situation as town.

Bussing is a good scum tactic, but not always the best option. The game gets harder for scum as time goes on and if your situation is that bad to begin with, it might be better to risk it than to try delaying for more time. Dunno, that's just WIFOM anyway. What matters is what each player has actually done in this game, not what they might have done instead.
Yay, Xata is here.

Naw, I never said I got a town read on grush. I said I got town vibes from his post. He is still my 2:d scum read atm, not as scummy as Jay but still probebly scum. I have played like 3/4(don't really remember o.O) games with him this far and I don't think I've ever seen him be emotional before. Obviously, that's not exactly alignment indicative, however I get the impression that he actually meant the words he wrote.

I want to lynch Jay today because my read on him is faaar stronger and that will give us an extra 72 to determine grush's alignment. You have any more thoughts on him? What's your take on his interactions with Hapa for example? Don't think you've mentioned them yet.


Hmm... Alright, I can see why you'd try to get your stronger read lynched first. I just got the impression that grush had went from total scum to null/townish for you in a span of few minutes (those two posts by grush). But clearly that's not the case, you just had a slight town impression or something. I still don't get why though.

Well, it does look like Hapa is being pretty lenient with Jay. For example:


On January 13 2013 11:16 jaybrundage wrote:
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On January 13 2013 11:04 Hapahauli wrote:
On January 13 2013 11:02 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 13 2013 10:01 Hapahauli wrote:
@ Jay

Please answer my question. Why are you pushing Kush out of one side of your mouth, then proposing a Sloosh RNG lynch out of the other? It reads a lot like you don't give a shit about who dies.


Well I just didnt like Kushs post it rubbed me the wrong way way play detrimental on purpose. Does it make him scum? No.

But it does make him anti town as fuck again I why put up with bull shit like that. If you dont address it upfront people try to get away with shit like that. I stated this in my reply to Xalatos.

Also as to the RNG lynch exactly what i stated It was to create discussion. I heard a vet mention it and decided to try it out. I mean I state in the post its for discussion. Seems like your nitpicking hapa.

And while i was writing this you discovered the post to Xalatos. zzzzz


Fair enough. Though at this stage of the game, discussion seems to be going well enough to not have to resort to a random-lynch or other discussion-generating plays. There are several interesting things to discuss right now. In particular, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on Hopeless, as well as the pressure on Grush at the moment.

I have no idea. Im assuming its a meta case. I dont recall playing with grush although the name is familiar. I look forward to his case tho. His response to it is odd. A vote for a vote i guess? Dont know what ot make if it.


Although another explanation is that Jay is a lynchbait in general...

Then there's this:


On January 22 2013 10:44 jaybrundage wrote:
Welp Zentor died told that bastard to post >.<

I haven't really thought of hapa much as scum but you guys bring up some good points . His lack of posting is a pretty big warning sign. Also as Ziggler pointed out Hapa hates people lurking and he always does his best to prod the town and push the town and drive discussion This game I havent seen that from him.

Also the fact that hapa hasn't been shot is suspect. However the same can be said of WBG as both are vets that know how to play a good town.

The more I look over hapa the less I see him as town and the more scummy he looks.

However grush is also really scummy his consistent lack of contributing and last day he threw his vote to the side he didn't even want a choice in deciding the lynch candidate. Like what the hell is that?

Im going to have to look things over again. But Iamp is making some good sense.

##Vote Hapahauli



It feels like a really sheepish vote. And would certainly fit the criteria of a plausible bussing play - suddenly coming to the conclusion that Hapa is scummy after it has become the general opinion already, then voting Hapa off-handedly while pushing grush at the same time. I think it would make much more sense for him to vote grush at that point, but he just went with Hapa despite never wanting to lynch him before (although he did show some suspicion about Hapa not being shot yet).
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 19:53 GMT
#1922
On January 26 2013 04:26 wherebugsgo wrote:
right, if grush's motivation for lynching jay is that it would put jay in a winnable spot, it makes sense.

I actually think I agree with that. Both grush and jay are afk currently, if they don't want to pull their weight on this then they're both the scum.



I think that's a very possible scenario. After all if we lynch grush today and he flips scum, scum would still win tomorrow if we lynched Lazer then. It would make a lot of sense for grush to be pushing Jay right now if they were to be the remaining scum.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 20:09 GMT
#1923
On January 26 2013 04:31 Lazermonkey wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2013 04:12 Xatalos wrote:
On January 25 2013 20:31 Lazermonkey wrote:
@Jay's response

1. I don't understand your logic here. Why is SlOosh flipping SK changing your read on Hopeless again?

2. My point still stands.

3. Okay, fair enough.

4. But why do you keep tunneling grush then? You get response that you say is scummy but yet you don't vote him...

Also:
You forget to mention that the person i tunneled in British MM was a town.
Scum slip? : ) Indicating grush is scum this game.


My read on Hopeless changed as well because he flipped SK instead of scum. It would have been very unlikely that both Sloosh and Hopeless were scum, since they were the two opposing wagons for the day. But since Sloosh flipped SK, it made much more sense for Hopeless to be scum than if Sloosh had flipped scum. What's scummy about this? It's very simple logic. Your logic is what's questionable here for not understanding the basic situation.

Lol, nice catch Surely it's grush+Jay with that, haha... Actually Jay *is* weirdly certain about grush being scum with that wording, but it could be just overconfidence in his read. I'm fairly certain grush is scum too, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that he IS scum.
No, because it's diferent in his situation. He actually called Hopeless slight town independant of SlOosh alignment. Most of you guys just said that Hopeless were looking scummy but SlOosh was likelier scum. It was quite clear that they both couldn't be scum so then it makes sense to first have a town read on Hopeless but then change your mind once he actually flips SK.

For Jay, I feel he just saw everyone going after Hopeless and thought that because ''everyone is using this SlOosh flipped SK argument, then why can't I?'' when it in fact doesn't make any sense to change your read in that position.


In fact, I think I get your point now. There's a sense of falseness in the way how Jay changes his read on Hopeless. It almost feels like he forgot he had a slight town read on Hopeless in the first place and just goes with the flow of the thread, to think that Hopeless is more likely scum after Sloosh flipped SK. It's always possible that he changed his mind in between and never mentioned it, but it's also a strong possiblity that he had no read to begin with and just messed with presenting his fake-reads.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 20:11 GMT
#1924
grush and/or Jay, it would be most welcome to hear your thoughts on the things we have discussed today.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 25 2013 20:16 GMT
#1925
If it's grush+Jay.... Then I must say that Jay has done well to survive this long without almost any suspicions, considering he usually gets lynched early. grush, on the other hand, has put in very close to zero effort so far and I'm actually wondering why he's still alive.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 12:58 GMT
#1951
On January 26 2013 10:52 wherebugsgo wrote:
where the fuck is xata?

Xata I want to know if you think jay + lazer is more likely than jay + grush.

I'm pretty much gonna rule out grush + lazer, I think that might be too simple.



Was sleeping... Look at the world clock And yeah, it's quite late to wake up now, but I had tons of sleep debt so I didn't wake up until now (lol).

I think grush+Jay is most likely at this point. It just makes the most sense considering the connections between the two potential scum players. I wouldn't rule out grush+Lazer or Lazer+Jay either, though. I'm just starting to think that Lazer is becoming less likely scum recently with his much increased activity and analytical focus on scumhunting. grush and Jay, on the other hand, haven't really done anything to make themself look more townish today.

In any case, why is grush+Lazer "too simple" in your opinion? Occam's razor (simplest solution) is usually the correct one.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 13:06 GMT
#1952
On January 26 2013 11:43 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 20:31 Lazermonkey wrote:
@Jay's response

1. I don't understand your logic here. Why is SlOosh flipping SK changing your read on Hopeless again?

2. My point still stands.

3. Okay, fair enough.

4. But why do you keep tunneling grush then? You get response that you say is scummy but yet you don't vote him...

Also:
You forget to mention that the person i tunneled in British MM was a town.
Scum slip? : ) Indicating grush is scum this game.


Eh I thought sloosh would flip scum. When he didn't and flipped SK it made sense for mafia to try to save a scum hopeless Or so i thought from my point of view. If i had been around for when hopeless started posting really townie then maybe it would of been different.

I kept tunneling grush because the more people post the better you can read them. Then today what lamp said about grush made a bit of sense of him being a coin flip. But as its coming down to the line. The only thing that makes much sense is lazer and grush. WBG and Xat dont make much sense.


That second part makes sense... But how did you go from "slight town" on Hopeless to "probably scum" just because Sloosh flipped SK? It would make sense if you originally thought Hopeless was scummy, but it just feels too opportunistic to switch your read around based on how the thread is going. Most of the thread were thinking that Hopeless was likely scum now, so you just went with it despite having a townread on him before.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 13:13 GMT
#1953
On January 26 2013 20:03 Lazermonkey wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2013 10:52 wherebugsgo wrote:
where the fuck is xata?

Xata I want to know if you think jay + lazer is more likely than jay + grush.

I'm pretty much gonna rule out grush + lazer, I think that might be too simple.

WBG, if your only possible scum teams involve Jay (+me or grush) at this point I suggest we we kill Jay today then.
##Unvote
##Vote: jaybrundage


I actually have no clue why you+grush is "too simple" for WBG. In my opinion, grush makes most sense as scum no matter who the other scum is. There is a point to be made about you looking more townish recently, though, especially with your activity and analytical approach. That would make you+grush and you+Jay less likely and grush+Jay more likely. I don't see why WBG would "rule out" grush+you though and not you+Jay at the same time.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 13:19 GMT
#1954
On January 26 2013 11:43 jaybrundage wrote:
##Vote Grush57

As i said im fine with either grush or lazer


Don't you really have any preference? Do you care about the lynch or are you just sheeping the result?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 18:09 GMT
#1958
On January 27 2013 00:03 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2013 19:58 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 26 2013 11:43 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 25 2013 20:31 Lazermonkey wrote:
@Jay's response

1. I don't understand your logic here. Why is SlOosh flipping SK changing your read on Hopeless again?

2. My point still stands.

3. Okay, fair enough.

4. But why do you keep tunneling grush then? You get response that you say is scummy but yet you don't vote him...

Also:
You forget to mention that the person i tunneled in British MM was a town.
Scum slip? : ) Indicating grush is scum this game.


Eh I thought sloosh would flip scum. When he didn't and flipped SK it made sense for mafia to try to save a scum hopeless Or so i thought from my point of view. If i had been around for when hopeless started posting really townie then maybe it would of been different.

I kept tunneling grush because the more people post the better you can read them. Then today what lamp said about grush made a bit of sense of him being a coin flip. But as its coming down to the line. The only thing that makes much sense is lazer and grush. WBG and Xat dont make much sense.
You see, I think you are lying here. Note the bolded part in this post:
On January 17 2013 11:19 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 17 2013 10:26 slOosh wrote:
jay, you haven't objectively commented on hopeless. Right now you have him as town because you think I'm scum. That won't do. What about his posts show that he is town?

Independent of you being scum voting for hopeless. I have a null tell/leaning townieon Hopeless. He has done some scummy things earlier on.

However I think more recent his posting has improved like his reasoning for voting for Ruuch when he thought he might be town does make sense. It shows reasoning and his thought process.

SlOosh In the small possibility that you are town. If you could give your reads on everyone and your other scum reads as well, I know that you think Hopeless and WBG are scum is there a third party that appeals to you? We have a whole day left. The more people post and be transparent the better of a chance town has towards winning.

On January 17 2013 10:26 Hopeless1der wrote:
On January 17 2013 09:51 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 17 2013 09:08 Hopeless1der wrote:
Question the first:
Why did Hapa vote for Ruuch?

Question the second:
Why did I vote for Ruuch?



@Lamp: Do you find my read of you suspicious, based on the posting, and circumstances surrounding the replacement, of Ruuch? By which I mean, do you think it is conceivable that I would arrive at a townread of you based on the limited information available?


Ill answer these. I think both of you voting for Ruunch was stupid. It was a dumb wagon. He is a completely new at this game. Doesn't know what hes doing. His late vote was completely a null tell. He doesnt know whats scummy and whats townie. He has never had experience playing this game before. He probably felt a bit overwhelmed (hence why he later quit.)

So my question to you is why did you vote Ruunch?

Also Ziggler why did you decide to vote SlOosh over say WBG or LM or Hopeless?

I asked the questions in that manner because my reasons were completely different than Hapa's. I was doing what little I could to save Prom, short of blowing up at the thread and calling everyone stupid, which seems to be the go-to response these days. Hapa on the other hand has been touting his scum-Prom read and all of the sudden feels its a good idea to go after Ruuch as a policy lynch. I won't deny it was a stupid wagon, but I felt it was a better to lose him than Prom. I didn't read Ruuch as scum, I read him as expendable, in comparison to Prom. Hapa trying to equate our votes as being equally scummy:
+ Show Spoiler +
On January 17 2013 05:27 Hapahauli wrote:
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On January 17 2013 05:17 Lazermonkey wrote:
Bugs, how do you go from:
On January 17 2013 01:42 wherebugsgo wrote:
alright, let's go for it. I actually like Hopeless's thoughts in his last post and Lazer looks much better because he pointed out something that I noticed too; in Hopeless's last game he played somewhat similar to this.

slOosh, on the other hand, is still scum.

##unvote
##vote slOosh
to
On January 17 2013 04:18 wherebugsgo wrote:
alright.

I'm feeling lazy so let's just kill Hopeless. I don't think anything is going to happen in the near future to make either read stronger and so it's just best to consolidate our votes rather than continue to inflate the thread with further pointless back-and-forths.

##unvote
##vote Hopeless1der
In just a couple of hours? And Hopeless didn't even say a thing during this time. Just you talking with Hapa and him calling the thread bad for not wanting to lynch Hopeless.

@Hapa: did you read hopeless filter from LVIII?


Yes I did. However that's only one game out of the multitude of his recent town games in which he played very aggressively.

In addition, I can't rationalize his stance on iamp from a town perspective:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=392955&currentpage=52#1022

Votes Ruuch, afks for the entire night cycle, comes back and says he thinks iamperfection is town for no reasoning, then proceeds to make arguments against me based on the "assumption" of iamp being town.

Furthermore, he stated that he didn't understand my reasoning for voting Ruuch, which is incredibly scummy considering that he voted Ruuch himself.

is a massive load of bull. I appreciate your efforts to put words in my mouth, like my "implied" super strong town read of Prom, while simultaneously disregarding Question the First.

Furthermore, the "assume you're town" was specifically TO iamperfection because he asked me to explain myself. Are you going to jump down his throat for this post?:
On January 16 2013 06:10 iamperfection wrote:
Do you still mantain he is scum?

If he was scum he would have had access to other players in order to coach him. If you look at his posts he is clearly lost and has no clue what he is doing.

Ill have to go back to the vote swaping when I get home because I now know that people were jumping from town to town.

Or does he get a free pass because he was speaking about himself?


Anyways, it seems I need to look towards self-preservation
##Unvote: Lazermonkey
##Vote: SlOosh




On January 17 2013 10:14 iamperfection wrote:
so what was your reasoning for your town read on me hopeless?

Primarily based on Ruuch's limited interactions with the thread.


@Hapa given what Hopeless said. Why did you vote for Ruunch? If you thought Prom was scum?
You see, it actually doesn't make any sense for you to be swapping your reads on Hopeless just because SlOosh slips SK. From scum PoV SlOosh looks just like a townie, so why would you actually change your read (town hopeless -> scum hopeless) because SlOosh flipped SK? Had SlOosh been town and Hopeless been scum, scum would have been just as inclined to save Hopeless as if Hopeless were scum and SlOosh SK. I think this logical faliure is a quite strong proof of that you cannot be town...

Does it make sense logically no it doesn't. But due to my absent in the game with internet problems. I felt it better to sheep vets I had town reads on them to refuse to lynch someone I had a mostly null read on. While it's not optimal play I wasn't confident in my own reads to go against some vets I had a town read on.

Also I'm in NYC for some of the weekend for my aunts 25 anniversary. So hopefully I can be a bit more active.

Xatalos what's your opinions on the scum team?

Do you think that Grush Lazer if the most likely. The only other one I can think of that would make sense would be WBG Lazer.



If you read one of my latest posts, you'd see that I'm considering grush+you the most likely combination. grush+Lazer is possible, but the connections between you and grush look worse (you hesitating so much to vote him while still pushing him, grush attempting to gain cred for you by voting for you earlier and now backing off to WBG...).
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 18:15 GMT
#1959
It's so easy to explain in-thread inactivity with RL stuff :/ I guess it's better than having no reason at all (looking at certain players), but it's still annoying.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 18:15 GMT
#1960
Btw Jay, why do you include WBG in your scum choices? Wasn't he a good townread for you?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 18:48 GMT
#1969
No, I don't think Lazer is our best choice. Combined with my townread on Kush, Lazer's recent active participation and grush's reluctance to do anything useful even now at LYLO, I think it's clear that grush > Lazer. I'm not sure about Lazer/Jay, either one of them could be scum, but I'm leaning Jay for reasons already mentioned. Why Lazer suddenly, WBG?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 18:49 GMT
#1970
Just because thrawn was pushing him the hardest?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 18:52 GMT
#1971
On January 27 2013 03:29 wherebugsgo wrote:
Actually I think my statement had an unintended effect.

I do now think it's grush + Lazer again, because when I said that, Lazer swapped to you. He's ultra willing to kill you (as is grush)

Grush is seemingly not really willing to kill Lazer though, and vice versa too. It seems if they are presented with alternatives, they go for those alternatives. Lazer definitely seems the most opportunistic right now.



Hmmm. That's a good point in favor of grush+Lazer, but definitely not conclusive. I still have a lot of difficulty imagining that Kush was scum - and Lazer has posted a lot today with content as well. I don't feel good about a Lazer lynch right now at all.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:20 GMT
#2009
Lol, suddenly the thread exploded. So grush is Lazer scum or not? You're voting for him but offering other options (including every player except you apparently).
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:31 GMT
#2012
What the heck WBG? Some time ago you were 100% certain of grush flipping scum. Now he's not scummy at all? What changed? He even keeps trolling more now when he should be trying to establish his innocence as town...
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:35 GMT
#2014
This is not him trolling?

On January 27 2013 04:18 grush57 wrote:
COMMAN JAY OR LAZER WHO WE GOING FOR WBG


On January 27 2013 05:09 grush57 wrote:
actually a wbg + xata could be pretty interesting

"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:37 GMT
#2015
On January 27 2013 04:05 Lazermonkey wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 04:03 grush57 wrote:
I'm toooooown :D.
I could lynch Lazer, atleast I know we won't be mislynching then.
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 02:59 grush57 wrote:
Well, the thread pretty much died. Scum were the more active members and now they lurk cuz of ez win :'(
WBG and Jay, gogogo
Lol...


And LOL what the hell is this....
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:37 GMT
#2016
There's just absolutely no coherent logic in what grush is saying.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:42 GMT
#2018
On January 27 2013 05:38 wherebugsgo wrote:
no how the fuck is that trolling?

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=344514&user=165092&currentpage=All

look at that, THAT is trolling.

I am NoSmurfHere btw, look at my filter and comments on grush. He is definitely not trolly here. I don't think he is scum anymore tbh.

lazer, let's go.

##unvote
##vote Lazermonkey


-.-

Lol WTF, I've never seen anything as stupid as that. grush's play this game takes second place though. How did your read switch from 100% scum to town in a matter of hours? I just don't get it.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:44 GMT
#2019
And what do you think about those posts... Is he really serious about finding scum? Definitely not.


On January 27 2013 05:37 Xatalos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 04:05 Lazermonkey wrote:
On January 27 2013 04:03 grush57 wrote:
I'm toooooown :D.
I could lynch Lazer, atleast I know we won't be mislynching then.
On January 27 2013 02:59 grush57 wrote:
Well, the thread pretty much died. Scum were the more active members and now they lurk cuz of ez win :'(
WBG and Jay, gogogo
Lol...


And LOL what the hell is this....

"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:49 GMT
#2023
I'd rather lynch Jay than Lazer today, to be honest. But grush is definitely the most likely scum. You can't say he's town just because he didn't go to a ridiculous troll-mode after being close to death.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:55 GMT
#2028
On January 27 2013 05:50 wherebugsgo wrote:
he hasn't trolled all game.

lazer has escaped lynch like 3 times now.


It's all relative. He has sheeped his scumreads, posted contradicting statements right after each other and done other things that can't be considered not trolling. It's not as senseless in that other game, but it's far worse than anything I've seen before.

That's bothering me about Lazer too, but there are other things that make Lazer look more townish (Kush's play, Lazer's positive participation today..). And last moment vote switches rarely end well.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 20:59 GMT
#2034
On January 27 2013 05:56 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 05:55 Xatalos wrote:
On January 27 2013 05:50 wherebugsgo wrote:
he hasn't trolled all game.

lazer has escaped lynch like 3 times now.


It's all relative. He has sheeped his scumreads, posted contradicting statements right after each other and done other things that can't be considered not trolling. It's not as senseless in that other game, but it's far worse than anything I've seen before.

That's bothering me about Lazer too, but there are other things that make Lazer look more townish (Kush's play, Lazer's positive participation today..). And last moment vote switches rarely end well.


you never qualified why kush's play made lazer look better.

In fact, I disagreed with you and never got an answer on that.

you haven't qualified how grush playing here is "worse" relative to anything, because you haven't provided a game where grush played town in which he was more helpful than this.


That's because Kush and Lazer share the same alignment....... You need to ask that?

grush's play here is worse and more useless than anything I've seen from any other player. It's not as bad as that previous game where he was scum, but it's not like he needs to just go 100% troll once he gets under pressure. It's stupid to assume something like that.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 21:16 GMT
#2045
On January 27 2013 06:00 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 05:59 Xatalos wrote:
On January 27 2013 05:56 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 27 2013 05:55 Xatalos wrote:
On January 27 2013 05:50 wherebugsgo wrote:
he hasn't trolled all game.

lazer has escaped lynch like 3 times now.


It's all relative. He has sheeped his scumreads, posted contradicting statements right after each other and done other things that can't be considered not trolling. It's not as senseless in that other game, but it's far worse than anything I've seen before.

That's bothering me about Lazer too, but there are other things that make Lazer look more townish (Kush's play, Lazer's positive participation today..). And last moment vote switches rarely end well.


you never qualified why kush's play made lazer look better.

In fact, I disagreed with you and never got an answer on that.

you haven't qualified how grush playing here is "worse" relative to anything, because you haven't provided a game where grush played town in which he was more helpful than this.


That's because Kush and Lazer share the same alignment....... You need to ask that?

grush's play here is worse and more useless than anything I've seen from any other player. It's not as bad as that previous game where he was scum, but it's not like he needs to just go 100% troll once he gets under pressure. It's stupid to assume something like that.


no, because I don't think kush's play was townish!


Okay... You never actually answered about that though. iamperfection agreed, but you went AFK or something? The thing is that in Witchraft Kush was pretty cautious and diplomatic with everyone. Here he was just doing stupid stuff and well on his way to become lynched. Don't you see the difference?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 21:34 GMT
#2053
On January 27 2013 06:26 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 06:25 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 27 2013 06:22 wherebugsgo wrote:
I don't understand, why would we care about grush changing his meta?

I've never seen someone drastically change their meta, and this is fucking grush we're talking about.

iamp might have agreed but I'm going to go check that newbie game that kush smurfed in. From what I recall his play was somewhat like what he did here.

Because your assuming Grush cant change a fucking bit. If he's scum then all he has to do is play useless and get away scot free


occam's razor is that he didn't change, because people don't voluntarily change their meta.

it's not that easy to change your meta, and I seriously doubt a player like grush would have the foresight to do so.


So this relies on grush being incompetent... But keep in mind that Hapa was scum as well. He could have easily coached grush to try something a bit different this time around. I doubt Hapa would have let grush just completely troll like he did previously. But he started trolling HIMSELF this game, so what do I know. Please do read Kush's filter in Witchcraft and tell me what you think then.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 26 2013 21:49 GMT
#2056
On January 27 2013 06:41 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 06:34 Xatalos wrote:
On January 27 2013 06:26 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 27 2013 06:25 jaybrundage wrote:
On January 27 2013 06:22 wherebugsgo wrote:
I don't understand, why would we care about grush changing his meta?

I've never seen someone drastically change their meta, and this is fucking grush we're talking about.

iamp might have agreed but I'm going to go check that newbie game that kush smurfed in. From what I recall his play was somewhat like what he did here.

Because your assuming Grush cant change a fucking bit. If he's scum then all he has to do is play useless and get away scot free


occam's razor is that he didn't change, because people don't voluntarily change their meta.

it's not that easy to change your meta, and I seriously doubt a player like grush would have the foresight to do so.


So this relies on grush being incompetent... But keep in mind that Hapa was scum as well. He could have easily coached grush to try something a bit different this time around. I doubt Hapa would have let grush just completely troll like he did previously. But he started trolling HIMSELF this game, so what do I know. Please do read Kush's filter in Witchcraft and tell me what you think then.

Xat so if your confident in grush being scum why cant you see a grush lazer scum team. Your basing the majority of your read on some one who was only here on day 1 for like half of it. Wouldnt lazer if he had been town been able to do something townie that would influnces your read?
He has legit escaped from every lynch so far. Wouldnt scum want to keep him alive as much as possible?


It's possible, but I'm not confident on Lazer flipping scum, so I want to lynch grush. It's troubling that Lazer has always somehow escaped the wagons that started forming on him, and he hasn't really done much to make me think he's town during the game, but it's still a lot more than grush has going for him. And more than you have going for you. So why would we lynch Lazer now?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 26 2013 21:53 GMT
#2057
WBG did you read Witchcraft yet?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 22:15 GMT
#2062
On January 27 2013 07:07 wherebugsgo wrote:
is he town in witchcraft? he posted a lot more than he did here even in the short amount of time he was alive.


Scum -.- Take this seriously please. Don't you see the difference in Kush's play?
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Xatalos
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January 26 2013 22:18 GMT
#2066
On January 27 2013 07:15 wherebugsgo wrote:
question xata:

why have you not moved your vote?


Because Lazer might be scum, but not as likely as grush. And you still didn't give me a reason to think otherwise, nor did you even realize if Kush was scum or town in Witchraft (lol).
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 22:22 GMT
#2070
On January 27 2013 07:16 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 07:15 Xatalos wrote:
On January 27 2013 07:07 wherebugsgo wrote:
is he town in witchcraft? he posted a lot more than he did here even in the short amount of time he was alive.


Scum -.- Take this seriously please. Don't you see the difference in Kush's play?


I'm not understanding what the difference is.

The two games are completely different, this game he was gone before d1 even ended.

He has a scum read on Hapa in this game but didn't vote him! He fucking voted MrZ instead.


Yes, but there's still a stark difference. As scum, Kush was serious and diplomatic. Now, he was just carefree and did whatever. It'd be better to argue about Lazer himself I guess, but Lazer seems pretty nullish to me, so it's more productive to consider the townread on Kush.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 22:26 GMT
#2072
On January 27 2013 07:20 wherebugsgo wrote:
saying someone is playing like they did before without even substantiating it is not how you fucking meta someone. jesus christ


Are you even reading? I said there's a difference, not playing like before. Sigh, this is just too frustrating. You even admitted that you didn't really read Witchraft by not knowing if Kush was scum or not in there. And now you're mispresenting. What the heck....
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 22:30 GMT
#2073
Posts like these:

On December 11 2012 05:33 kushm4sta wrote:
Dandel I have a feeling all town have the same win condition and it's slightly different than the normal one. That's why everyone thinks they are third party when they are really town.

Don't you want someone scummier/lurkier to explain the win condition? Cause once I explain it we can't use it anymore.

Also can you claim your flavor dandel? you already used your ability so I don't see the harm.



On December 12 2012 03:42 kushm4sta wrote:
leaning shiaopi/mrzentor right now, probably shiaopi though.

austin: do you realize that the flavor in this game is supremely fucked up? We know this from the random ass abilities people have been using. I'm not sure how much we can figure out from flavor claims.
Also hosts will supply scum with fake claims if they need it sometimes.
So I think Dandel is third party but he wins with town.


Pretty careful and vague. Not like the trollish attitude he had this game at all.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 22:36 GMT
#2081
Posts like these...

On January 13 2013 08:49 kushm4sta wrote:
Wow I was going to try hard this game but then prome said what he said now I have to play like shit just to spite him.
~~~
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2013 07:08 Dandel Ion wrote:
If Kush goes retard in this game I'll just modkill him

I'll have no qualms about that.

Define full retard.
I will not play illegally that is all I can promise.




On January 13 2013 09:47 kushm4sta wrote:
fyi i dont read megacases, so keep that in mind.
k this is my last intro post.
Next time I post it will be telling you who i think is scum.



On January 14 2013 04:01 kushm4sta wrote:
mrz is playing scum how I play scum aka newbish.
he has these amazing town reads
revoting mrz
##unvote
##vote mrz


I think it's pretty evident. Just read his filter please. It's completely different from the way he was vague and careful before doing anything in Witchcraft.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 22:43 GMT
#2090
Not trollish in the sense how grush just posted video clips and random capslock text in that other game, but trollish enough to be forced out of the game because he was playing too weirdly.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 26 2013 22:45 GMT
#2092
And I don't really get it still how grush suddenly became town in your mind...
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Xatalos
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January 26 2013 22:49 GMT
#2096
Oh, okay. I misunderstood this then.

On January 14 2013 05:55 Dandel Ion wrote:
Kushm4sta is being replaced by Lazermonkey. Effective immediately.

Because Kush decided to play newbie games instead. <3


I thought it was because Kush was playing newbishly in this game.

And yeah, where did LM disappear really.... Now of all times.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 22:52 GMT
#2099
On January 27 2013 07:46 wherebugsgo wrote:
you're too inflexible, holy crap

you are scum aren't you? wtf?


Should I just vote for a lesser read instead? I would do that if the other option was someone like you.... But since it's grush, I see no point.
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Xatalos
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January 26 2013 22:54 GMT
#2101
So Jay is AFK, and grush and LM are actively lurking -.- Yay...
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Xatalos
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January 26 2013 22:55 GMT
#2107
Isn't it still 1 hour more? And besides, MrZentor and iamperfection were thinking the same. They were obviously town. I don't see why I would be scum for sharing their opinion...
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Xatalos
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January 26 2013 23:01 GMT
#2113
And iamperfection's... and mine.... But yeah, Lazer does look worse than Kush. Could you explain to me clearly why you don't want to lynch grush? Convince me. Although it's looking like Lazer is getting lynched anyway atm...
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 23:14 GMT
#2124
On January 27 2013 08:08 wherebugsgo wrote:
you want me to prove a point to you guys?

there's 50 minutes left, I'm leaving. for real this time.

Bye.


So you're not going to answer why you're so convinced that grush is suddenly town and Lazer is scum with the backing of thrawn, supersoft etc.? That's too WIFOM anyway, scum might have planned for this or just killed those players for other reasons. A much better reason IMO is how Lazer has nicely avoided all the times he's been up for lynch, with other wagons forming conveniently, since it's not even WIFOM but clear logic.

There's still time, think about it. You're just basically giving up now.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 23:16 GMT
#2128
On January 27 2013 08:11 Lazermonkey wrote:
##Unvote
##Vote: Lazermonkey


Lol. Looks like it's all or nothing then. If you flip town I'm gonna be pretty pissed at this, but it's your choice for not doing anything and now suiciding.

##Unvote
##Vote: Lazermonkey
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Xatalos
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January 26 2013 23:22 GMT
#2133
On January 27 2013 08:19 Lazermonkey wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 08:16 Xatalos wrote:
On January 27 2013 08:11 Lazermonkey wrote:
##Unvote
##Vote: Lazermonkey


Lol. Looks like it's all or nothing then. If you flip town I'm gonna be pretty pissed at this, but it's your choice for not doing anything and now suiciding.

##Unvote
##Vote: Lazermonkey
What do you want me to do? I can vote grush but there is no fucking way I'm going to turn the lynch any other way at this point. Scum played well enough and I played horrible enough to let this happend.


Maybe it's too late now, but you could have done something, anything, earlier if you were town. You've been basically just lurking the discussion for many hours now. Not to mention your whole play throughout this game that led to this. But if you're scum, I guess this is the easiest way out.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 26 2013 23:29 GMT
#2135
There's actually a lingering doubt in my mind that WBG might be scum after all. He's been acting really irrationally lately and now he just went lurking. Is this really his town play? And he even calls me scum for saying something that MrZentor and iamperfection agreed with. I don't even...
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 26 2013 23:38 GMT
#2143
It's just a slight suspicion, strenghtened with his choice to lurk now and spam up the thread with nonsense before that. And he didn't even really explain why grush became townish to him. I think Lazer has a better chance to flip scum though.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 26 2013 23:48 GMT
#2148
It really feels like a big gamble atm. It could be grush, it could be Lazer, it could be Jay, it could even be WBG. Scum have really played well and/or town have played bad for this to happen. Too much uncertainty :/
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 26 2013 23:54 GMT
#2153
On January 27 2013 08:50 jaybrundage wrote:
No its a bad idea. Stick with lazer. Last minute vote swapping now would be a scum move.


WBG+Jay scumteam? xD Lol
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Xatalos
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January 26 2013 23:59 GMT
#2158
I'm torn. But it's too late anyway. Goodbye Lazer, soon we'll see if this goes on or not.
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:01 GMT
#2163
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:03 GMT
#2169
On January 27 2013 09:02 grush57 wrote:
Now I wished we lynched wbg for the lols.


Yeah that would have been the most hilarious ending by far xD But too risky. This was the certain victory, so why not?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:04 GMT
#2171
Jay did all the work for the scumteam. Every shot, and of course all the RBs (go figure).

Mafia never roleblocked somebody that's not on their team. In fact, they actually actively roleblocked themselves (instead of just not RBing) one or two times, for god knows what reason.


Lololol yeah we weren't the most conventional team :D
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:05 GMT
#2175
sloosh and Mafia both shot at supersoft n1. He would have gotten a redcheck on sloosh, had he survived.

Ouch, supersoft, you were popular :O
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:06 GMT
#2178
On January 27 2013 09:05 Dandel Ion wrote:
This solves the question for all eternity.

When asked if Pie or Cheesecake...

Pie is the correct answer. Always.


Thank you for participating in this test for SCIENCE.


Yes, pies for the win As we proved!
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:07 GMT
#2181
On January 27 2013 09:06 grush57 wrote:
meh, chocolate cake with peanutbutter icing is even better than pie.


You're a cheesecake so you're just biased.
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Xatalos
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January 27 2013 00:08 GMT
#2184
On January 27 2013 09:06 Hapahauli wrote:
:3


You were right, it was good to bus you. I still think we could have taken it if you had actively played all the way, but since you had your RL stuff, it went pretty good anyways.
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Xatalos
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January 27 2013 00:09 GMT
#2185
On January 27 2013 09:07 jaybrundage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 09:04 Xatalos wrote:
Jay did all the work for the scumteam. Every shot, and of course all the RBs (go figure).

Mafia never roleblocked somebody that's not on their team. In fact, they actually actively roleblocked themselves (instead of just not RBing) one or two times, for god knows what reason.


Lololol yeah we weren't the most conventional team :D

Yea I figured If we dont have someone that we have a real reason to think is blue we should just waste roleblock. And seeing as many mafia teams don't use rb on there own it was perfect.


I'm never gonna be able to repeat this trick though If I get roleblocked, everyone will just auto-lynch me rofl
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:16 GMT
#2187
Are we going to get some kind of an after-game analysis post or something?
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Xatalos
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January 27 2013 00:16 GMT
#2188
I would also want to get feedback. What did I do right, and what wrong?
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:25 GMT
#2192
On January 27 2013 09:18 supersoft wrote:
yes. Thanks for destroying my victory%.

Grush your trolling wasn't funny and you destroyed the game.
Zentor and Thrawn played okay, but you should have claimed mason when i told you to claim.
promelynch was bad, and to some extend my fault. At the end = last few hours it was pretty clear he was town. he played well, with marvs help
Lazer i really don't know what you did there this game... however, you were kind of a bad lynch from the point of time when sloosh flipped SK and not scum. But it's so hard to read you.
hopeless, same for you... really hard to read you

overall it's too easy for scum to hide in these pointless discussions you all bring up all the time.
It's quite sad, that you think I am trolling all the time, when i am actually not.
My method of finding scum might be new to you, however it's pretty effective and I usually don't do things for no reason.
I think as town, my play makes sense to others who try to understand what i am doing.
Wbg for example might not be the best scumhunter every game, but he trys to understand what people are doing and why they are doing it.
I think you're all smart guys in real life. But in the game i think many of you rather follow guides, rules or something than following their own brain.

For example Lazer, you accused me because i made my lists at some point. And yes, my lists were pretty bad at d1 and i had things in my list that actually don't really matter. But at least I made a list. I tried to do something. Lazer had no lists at all. I mean he had nothing and he critisized me for having something. And seriously, at least i was right about Sloosh. I mean that was something...
I don't care about rules and guides and policy lynches and lynching idiots and lynching trolls. Thats all bullshit.
We lynch scum. That's my undestanding of the game.
We have no time for a policy lynch because someone trolls or something, only because it's bad.


I think you were clearly town for sharing everything that came to your mind. Maybe it was on the wrong track, but it was just D1 and we shot you because you were causing so much activity and content in the thread, and it would be real trouble if you got on the right track. It was lucky that you were a cop, would have never guessed that with your activity (usually blues try to hide a bit).
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Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:30 GMT
#2195
I think people trusted my RB claim too much. WBG didn't even bother to read my filter after that, and that was a fatal mistake. I think I actually played pretty scummy D1 and started to focus more to look townie only after that.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
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January 27 2013 00:34 GMT
#2197
On January 27 2013 09:29 Dandel Ion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 09:16 Xatalos wrote:
Are we going to get some kind of an after-game analysis post or something?

Dunno I'm pretty lazy.
Probably not.
I'm gonna do a shitty tl;dr version right now. LO AND BEHOLD:


What I can say to you (also goes for jay I guess): Enjoy getting mislynched as town in the future. Unless you step up your towngame.
The "I'm lynchbait, lololol" excuse will likely not work anymore for you.
For the record, I'd prefer you stepping up your towngame, in case you were wondering which of the two options is the better one.


Bugs (and to a lesser degree supersoft) I think you'd have a better time playing if you were less angry about everything. Or condescending, or w/e you want to call it.
Other people would prob have a better time too, if that matters to you (from what I've seen - probably not. But worth a try)


Hapa improved his scumgame from the last i saw (mario), but has to work on his play after day 1. But he didn't claim scum day1, so it's improvement!


Tho, the deciding factor was mostly unmotivated(?) play from a bunch of the townies imo. You know who you are.


Ugh, I guess you're right. I think I played more townish in this game than many of the actual townies, and more townish than my latest town game in British. I'll just have to wait until I have a holiday or something and go all-in with my reads and such if I don't want to get lynched
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
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January 27 2013 00:35 GMT
#2198
WBG still AFK?
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January 27 2013 00:50 GMT
#2205
On January 27 2013 09:43 wherebugsgo wrote:
I attacked xatalos d1 and I was shut down completely. I assumed I was wrong because everyone disagreed with me.

I put weight on the roleblocks because I had already assumed that I was wrong. It was a coinflip on the RBs because on the night scum shot thrawn they could not have known there were no other blues.

wp jay and xata. I am actually serious about the break, I'm probably gonna focus on school and maybe check the forum now and again, smurf or hydra or whatever but I've lost my interest in the game when we have so many townies who play like this.


That's sad but yeah, it really makes it harder for town :/ I'll have to improve my towngame considerably now too, since nobody suspected me here in the end and I'm going to be under a lot of scrutiny in the future. I don't know what I'm going to do as scum though, haha... Insta-death? :D
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January 27 2013 00:59 GMT
#2213
On January 27 2013 09:51 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 09:50 Xatalos wrote:
On January 27 2013 09:43 wherebugsgo wrote:
I attacked xatalos d1 and I was shut down completely. I assumed I was wrong because everyone disagreed with me.

I put weight on the roleblocks because I had already assumed that I was wrong. It was a coinflip on the RBs because on the night scum shot thrawn they could not have known there were no other blues.

wp jay and xata. I am actually serious about the break, I'm probably gonna focus on school and maybe check the forum now and again, smurf or hydra or whatever but I've lost my interest in the game when we have so many townies who play like this.


That's sad but yeah, it really makes it harder for town :/ I'll have to improve my towngame considerably now too, since nobody suspected me here in the end and I'm going to be under a lot of scrutiny in the future. I don't know what I'm going to do as scum though, haha... Insta-death? :D


your characterization of kush's play as troll really almost made me vote you, but I knew no one was going to vote you with me.

There was no chance in hell you were ever getting lynched after the double RB and everyone calling you town d1. There was just really no way.

In fact, I find it more likely that I would have died if I attacked you.


Heh, I guess I went a bit overboard with resisting the Lazer lynch. I just thought that it would look bad if I easily switched to Lazer, but I couldn't come up with reasons to resist other thank Kush, so I went too far with that one argument. iamperfection agreed with my argument though, so I didn't think you'd be so upset about that.
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January 27 2013 01:13 GMT
#2221
On January 27 2013 10:05 Dandel Ion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 09:58 wherebugsgo wrote:
On January 27 2013 09:54 Promethelax wrote:
On January 27 2013 09:50 supersoft wrote:
btw... did you both shoot me? scum and sloosh?


Yeah they did.

Bugs: I know I said this in pm land but you saying that I M a good player means a lot to me and as unhappy as this game made me in a lot of ways you and super both made my day by calling my play good. Getting that recognition from good players means a lot to me. Thanks.


I'd much rather have 20 of you than 1 of grush on my team

I don't think I would have lynched him given that I kept having to remind myself of his meta, but I was just so frazzled and confused at how I could have been wrong about Xata, how both jay and lazer could have done nothing, that I "knew" two of jay + lazer + grush had to be scum.

I don't understand what you're supposed to do as a player when no one has confidence in you that you are right, so when you are right, you don't have confidence in yourself that you are right. Do you just say fuck you all, I'm right and then destroy the town until they agree with you?

It's like pulling teeth, even in BC's game I had correct early reads but 10 or 15 townies pulling me away from them.

I honestly, and this is only my chobo self's opinion, think that it would not be that hard for you to convince people if you didn't call all the players terrible and idiots all the time.

Getting insulted makes it so people WANT you to be wrong. Which is obviously real BS, and bad in itself, but it's how emotions work.

I think you could be a convincing person, though. I see it deep in your soul.


Haha :D
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Xatalos
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January 27 2013 01:35 GMT
#2223
Good night, it was a fun game although the ragefest at the end was a bit disheartening. I actually totally enjoy playing scum during D1, but it gets less enjoyable towards the end. It's the other way around as town. My last town game was so miserable that this was easily more fun, but I think actually my most fun game might be Paranoia Mafia as town (especially the comeback at the end haha). Hard to say, I like both scum and town. I only wish I could roll blue some day, since that might be more interesting than VT.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 02:10 GMT
#2229
On January 27 2013 11:07 iamperfection wrote:
way to much respect given to me in the scum qt.

but thanks


Np You were the towniest town, and although you were on the wrong track, it's most important to establish your townishness. That way you can get people to support you when you get on the right track. That would have been dangerous so you had to die.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 02:11 GMT
#2230
Didn't get sleep yet, lol, so I came back again.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 02:14 GMT
#2232
Btw WBG, I have to ask you something. Why was I so scummy for defending Lazer to the last moment? I tried to emulate my town meta completely in that situation and I am very stubborn as town, and pretty wishy-washy as scum. So I don't really get it when you say "your stubbornness on this matter is making me rethink my townread on you". I'd say that I would have suspected myself for sheeping to Lazer, NOT the other way around...
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 02:16 GMT
#2233
And in fact, for a moment I thought you were testing me: if I sheeped there, you would start pushing me. But I was dead wrong of course.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 03:02 GMT
#2243
On January 27 2013 11:57 Dandel Ion wrote:
btw, I lol'd IRL when Xata tried to justify his meta read with kush's witchcraft filter, but quoted posts that were not from witchcraft, but from the chinese grammar micro mafia.

And nobody checked.


Wut :O This is Witchcraft alright: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=386816&user=200457&currentpage=2
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 03:07 GMT
#2249
On January 27 2013 11:49 wherebugsgo wrote:
well there were a few things.

one, your vote didn't ever move. If you had doubts like I thought you did, I expected your vote to move. That was relatively minor but it had been nagging at me and I never actually expressed that because I had assumed you were town the entire time. Bad assumption to make on my part.

second, the argument for kush being town made no sense in the context of any of the three games, and the fact that you kept telling me to read the game despite the fact that you had no actual evidence to support your meta argument suggested to me you either had confirmation bias or you were bullshitting me. Either some sort of trap (to see whether I was scum) or that you were scum.

When I asked you for the explanation and you never gave one, I became more suspicious. When you finally gave those 4 posts and still called kush trollish in this game, I knew there was something wrong. There was no reason to believe kush was trollish this game, and the two posts you cited in support of calling him trollish weren't indicative of anything at all.

Truly though, even though I rationalized my read on you with the RBs that was more me trying to come up with some reason as to why I would be wrong about you. I never actually thought you were town from your posts, I only thought you were town because everyone else said so and because there had to be a reason they thought so. I simply assumed it after the n2 roleblock where I thought that scum might not risk it knowing there are more blues.

Having seen Hapa claim the RB I should have been more suspicious. I was at some point questioning that but again I didn't think you would waste your RB the entire game (unless you didn't have one and were faking it)


Hmm. Could you explain the first part? Wasn't it logical to keep my vote on grush as he was my "strongest scumread"? Wouldn't it have been instead scummy to move my vote to a lesser scumread like Lazer or Jay?

It was mostly a feel thing... Granted, I knew his alignment which made me look more convinced than I really should have shown, but it's true that Kush was more diplomatic there (especially in the beginning) and not diplomatic at all in this game (even though he only played in the beginning). I just thought I'd go with that feeling and try to make myself more townie by showing that I "cared" about the lynch. I obviously took it too far, but I think it was better than to sheep.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 03:09 GMT
#2251
On January 27 2013 12:07 Dandel Ion wrote:
Witchcraft had a "game" going on pregame - Chinese Grammar micro mafia.

Where kush was town.
He talked to me in some parts you quoted, and I didn't play in witchcraft.

he was scum in witchcraft then, that was later in the thread :D


I remember cause i totally carried that (pre)game.


Lol, really? Well, I'm glad nobody bothered to dig deeper into this :D I would have been in trouble for having such a strong opinion based on lazy and false reasoning.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 12:42 GMT
#2264
On January 27 2013 21:19 marvellosity wrote:
Hi guys. Great flavour by the hosts.

In all the shouting about townies playing properly, I should say the mafia-team played well. Hapa survived long enough to push some mislynches, while xata and jay played to their strengths (and weaknesses!).

As a scumteam, you have to beat what's put in front of you, and in that regard they succeeded admirably. I was impressed by both jay and xata overall.


It worked great for this game, but as for the bigger picture, this might not have been the wisest strategy :D For example Ace plays always quietly and hard-to-read in the beginning, then starts doing stuff later (or not if he's scum). But now I have a meta of discussing actively regardless of my alignment, so I'll HAVE to post a lot no matter what and I will be under extreme scrutiny because of this game especially. And straight from D1 too, since I shouldn't be so hard to read anymore.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 12:44 GMT
#2266
On January 27 2013 15:36 jaybrundage wrote:
Also WBG I been thinking of just straight up policy lynching people that lurk. If towns started doing this it would create a better game space. People mention lynch all lurkers occasionally but town needs to really implement it. So we can have a better town in general.


Yeah, I was really saddened by MrZentor He was a MASON and yet he did absolutely nothing (after D1 at least) besides claiming Mason. He could have easily changed the game completely if he had put in a little bit of effort.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 12:44 GMT
#2267
On January 27 2013 21:43 Promethelax wrote:
Welcome to my life.


There's a hard road ahead of me :D
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 13:05 GMT
#2268
On January 27 2013 13:34 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 12:07 Xatalos wrote:
On January 27 2013 11:49 wherebugsgo wrote:
well there were a few things.

one, your vote didn't ever move. If you had doubts like I thought you did, I expected your vote to move. That was relatively minor but it had been nagging at me and I never actually expressed that because I had assumed you were town the entire time. Bad assumption to make on my part.

second, the argument for kush being town made no sense in the context of any of the three games, and the fact that you kept telling me to read the game despite the fact that you had no actual evidence to support your meta argument suggested to me you either had confirmation bias or you were bullshitting me. Either some sort of trap (to see whether I was scum) or that you were scum.

When I asked you for the explanation and you never gave one, I became more suspicious. When you finally gave those 4 posts and still called kush trollish in this game, I knew there was something wrong. There was no reason to believe kush was trollish this game, and the two posts you cited in support of calling him trollish weren't indicative of anything at all.

Truly though, even though I rationalized my read on you with the RBs that was more me trying to come up with some reason as to why I would be wrong about you. I never actually thought you were town from your posts, I only thought you were town because everyone else said so and because there had to be a reason they thought so. I simply assumed it after the n2 roleblock where I thought that scum might not risk it knowing there are more blues.

Having seen Hapa claim the RB I should have been more suspicious. I was at some point questioning that but again I didn't think you would waste your RB the entire game (unless you didn't have one and were faking it)


Hmm. Could you explain the first part? Wasn't it logical to keep my vote on grush as he was my "strongest scumread"? Wouldn't it have been instead scummy to move my vote to a lesser scumread like Lazer or Jay?

It was mostly a feel thing... Granted, I knew his alignment which made me look more convinced than I really should have shown, but it's true that Kush was more diplomatic there (especially in the beginning) and not diplomatic at all in this game (even though he only played in the beginning). I just thought I'd go with that feeling and try to make myself more townie by showing that I "cared" about the lynch. I obviously took it too far, but I think it was better than to sheep.


by itself it didn't mean much but as a townie in this type of situation I would expect doubt more than assuredness.

grush exemplified that, and I could actually understand that if he were town why he would be saying the things he would be saying. So, even though I was really frustrated at what he had done all game and why basically most players in his situation would have to be lynched for what he did, his play made sense from a town perspective.

From a logical perspective (since you asked about what it would have been logical to do) I think it varies slightly from player to player depending on their own biases toward the game and whatnot, but from my own experience, your job as town is to try and make sense of things. There were very many reasons to be confused in this situation and I wasn't convinced you were actually questioning the same things I was. I couldn't pin that on you simply not understanding the situation as town or whether you were scum at first, but as time went on closer to deadline I was becoming more and more suspicious.

Partly the reason I just flat out afked an hour before deadline was because I was mad, but also because I knew that if you were scum there was absolutely nothing I could do. There were strong signs you were and I just didn't have the drive, I was mentally exhausted at that point. I was simply broken, I couldn't bring myself to think logically and I needed to stop myself from raging so hard I'd do something much stupider than I had already. I was mostly mad at myself for not trusting my earlier reads, what jay was saying didn't really have that much of an impact (though that was a pretty neat strategy ^^)

I'll have to work on that in the future; I've been working on it for several months now and sometimes I can stay calm and sometimes I just can't. I'm not really sure what triggers it, tbh.

As for the meta stuff, here's what I'll say about it, with a short prelude and some other explanation, if anyone really cares, you can read it, if not, don't.

I'm going to say this now since I don't plan on doing this in the future and so I don't think this will affect my games. Ever since Space Station Mafia (if anyone here remembers that) in April I've been requesting town. I actually requested town a couple times before that too but not as regularly as I have been since. So for the last ~9 months I've been rolling town partly because of luck (some hosts have denied my requests) and mostly because I've been requesting it. I wanted to get better at scumhunting, and I think I am better at using meta now than I was before. I think it's a crucial tool and I am very very confident that players like Foolishness, sandro, Radfield, syllo, etc. would agree with me that correct use of meta often helps you catch mafia and separate townies from mafia much more quickly than otherwise.

I had a short conversation with GMarshal once during one of my earliest games, maybe my third or fourth here on the forum, something like a year and a half or more ago. I asked him why he was smurfing, as I had seen him smurf in several games at the time, and IIRC he asked me if I could guess. I said well, if you're smurfing then no one really knows who you are and they can't use past games to determine your alignment. He said exactly, meta matters. We had some sort of conversation about how meta is used or misused and whatnot (I don't really remember the details) but that phrase stuck with me ever since; meta matters.

Well, with kush here I think our conversation about his meta exemplified that you, for whatever reason, did not understand why the situation did not make kush (and by extension Lazer) town or scum based on meta alone. I ignored meta with regards to kush (I could have used it more specifically with Lazer but I wasn't feeling comfortable with his meta tbh) because I did not feel like the context of this game allowed for an adequate comparison between this game and Witchcraft. It didn't even provide an adequate comparison between this game and the newbie game, though it was a slightly better comparison. It was still bad, but I thought it might make kush slightly more likely to be scum.

My read on kush/Lazer wasn't based on meta though, and that's the problem. When you tried arguing that kush was trolling in this game and he wasn't in Witchcraft I sought your interpretation based on specifics, because simply making an assertion doesn't mean you've properly read into someone's past game history. When I didn't receive specifics I became suspicious. Either you were blinded, or you were scum. I became very suspicious when I saw you grasp at straws with those 4 posts you quoted, because I felt any reasonable townie would not characterized the two posts you quoted as trollish.

I have tried "metaing" people as scum and it can work pretty effectively, though in this case you didn't really have any consequence to the flip because there wouldn't be one. If you want an example, I believe in Mini X I might have metaed a couple people, where I was scum. I think I did in Couple's Therapy as well (against chaoser). Obviously these are fake and you can find holes in them but if you're looking for a convincing way to "look town" I think you can find those types of plays in the scum games of players like BC and Ace.


I guess you're correct. I was being too stubborn and doubtless even though the situation was very unclear and hard to read. And I had a severe confirmation bias - just spewing out stuff to make Lazer look more townish, not even actually considering if it made any sense or not. That's not actually too different from my town games (I usually get confirmation bias very easily as town) but still, it was just over-the-top. Part of my plan was to actually get Lazer on my side *if* Jay managed to get lynched somehow. I would have shot you and then made Lazer and grush fight each other to death. I think it worked reasonably well too:

On January 27 2013 09:02 Lazermonkey wrote:
WP Xata. Never really thought you were scum TBH.


It feels weird to give you advice since you're much more experienced than I am, but here goes:

- Playing scum from time to time might be more beneficial to your scumhunting than just playing town as often as possible - that's how criminal investigators also work, they try to get into the mindset of the criminal, and there's no better way than to experience it yourself!
- It was good and felt very townish how you questioned yourself about several reads, but you should have taken it further and gone through my filter closely - roleblocks are just one argument for my townishness, not clear evidence
- Not sure how you were so dead wrong on your reads for most of the game, but you were clearly trying and established your townishness, you just need more ability to figure out who are actually scum (playing scum might help, and giving more attention to stuff that just "feel off" like Hapa being pretty lurkish and not interested in figuring out players - although it was true that he was doing more than most townies in the game, but he should be compared to himself)
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 13:10 GMT
#2269
Btw, I'm starting to get depressed about my following games and the heavy danger of getting seriously pressured and lynched regardless of my alignment now. Could someone maybe PM me (to make me a bit harder to read haha) tips on how to play as A) town B) scum from now on? I definitely can't repeat my strategies in this game as scum, and I'll have to be much more productive as town than ever before....
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 14:02 GMT
#2271
On January 27 2013 22:19 GMarshal wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 22:10 Xatalos wrote:
Btw, I'm starting to get depressed about my following games and the heavy danger of getting seriously pressured and lynched regardless of my alignment now. Could someone maybe PM me (to make me a bit harder to read haha) tips on how to play as A) town B) scum from now on? I definitely can't repeat my strategies in this game as scum, and I'll have to be much more productive as town than ever before....

Welcome to being good. Now even when you are the greenest green everyone will ask you if you are mafia. :-P


Damn it xD Should have just lurked this game, haha...
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
January 27 2013 19:08 GMT
#2273
On January 28 2013 04:06 wherebugsgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2013 22:19 GMarshal wrote:
On January 27 2013 22:10 Xatalos wrote:
Btw, I'm starting to get depressed about my following games and the heavy danger of getting seriously pressured and lynched regardless of my alignment now. Could someone maybe PM me (to make me a bit harder to read haha) tips on how to play as A) town B) scum from now on? I definitely can't repeat my strategies in this game as scum, and I'll have to be much more productive as town than ever before....

Welcome to being good. Now even when you are the greenest green everyone will ask you if you are mafia. :-P


just smurf bro


Lol the correct approach Newbie games here I come...
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
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